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thistlelike

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this⋅tle

  [this-uhl]
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–noun
1. any of various prickly, composite plants having showy, purple flower heads, esp. of the genera Cirsium, Carduus, or Onopordum.
2. any of various other prickly plants.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME thistel, OE; c. D distel, G Distel, ON thistill

Related forms:
this⋅tle⋅like, adjective
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Word Origin & History

thistle 
prickly herbaceous plant, O.E. þistel, from P.Gmc. *thikhstula (cf. O.H.G. distil, Ger. Distel, O.N. þistell, Dan. tidsel), of unknown origin. Emblem of Scotland since 15c.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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