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noun
1.
any of various prickly, composite plants having showy, purple flower heads, especially of the genera Cirsium, Carduus, or Onopordum.
2.
any of various other prickly plants.
Origin:
before 900; Middle English thistel, Old English; cognate with Dutch distel, German Distel, Old Norse thistill
before 900; Middle English thistel, Old English; cognate with Dutch distel, German Distel, Old Norse thistill
Related forms
this·tle·like, adjective
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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.
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