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blessed thistle

Blessed thistle

Bless"ed this"tle\ See under Thistle.
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Blessed thistle is always a great word to know.
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
WordNet
blessed thistle

noun
1. tall Old World biennial thistle with large clasping white-blotched leaves and purple flower heads; naturalized in California and South America [syn: milk thistle
2. annual of Mediterranean to Portugal having hairy stems and minutely spiny-toothed leaves and large heads of yellow flowers 
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