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Canada thistle

a prickly European weed (Cirsium arvense) of the composite family, with heads of purplish flowers and wavy leaves: now common as a fast-spreading, injurious weed throughout the N U.S.

Canada thistle

noun

A perennial herb (Cirsium arvense) in the composite family, native to Europe and naturalized as a noxious weed in North America, having spiny-margined leaves and rose-purple or sometimes white flower heads.

canada-thistle

Noun

(plural Canada thistles)

  1. Corn thistle.

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  • cirsium-arvense
  • canada-thistles
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  • shore-thistle
  • bull-thistle
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  • forty-ninth-parallel
  • canadiana
  • natural-governing-party
  • sow-thistles

Words near Canada thistle in the dictionary


  • canada-jays
  • Canada lily
  • Canada lynx
  • Canada mayflower
  • Canada thistle
  • canada-thistles
  • Canada yew
  • canadaphobia
  • canadarian
  • canadarians

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