thistle
Example Sentences
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Adidas' iconic three stripes feature along the shoulders and down the sleeves and a purple and green thistle motif, symbolising Scotland's national flower, is on the reverse collar.
From BBC • Mar. 24, 2026
And since each sphere, though itself dead, seldom carries fewer than 150,000 fertile seeds, and sometimes as many as a quarter of a million, every tumbler leaves a vast wake of potential Russian thistle plants.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 17, 2025
Researchers from the University of Cologne have found a new use for Cnicin, a substance produced in blessed thistle.
From Science Daily • Apr. 19, 2024
A Marin County park ranger was visiting her in-laws two weeks ago when she spotted a baby hummingbird hovering over a thistle in their backyard — or so she thought.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 1, 2023
Taking the thistle flowers, she dropped to her knees and bent low before the birdbath.
From "The Egypt Game" by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
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