1. Perennial stoloniferous thistle of northern Europe with lanceolate basal leaves and usually solitary heads of reddish-purple flowers
   - melancholy thistle, Cirsium heterophylum

Type of: thistle

• spurious correlation
• spurious wing
• spuriously
• spuriousness
• spurn
• spurned
• spurner
• spurred gentian
• spurrey
• spurring
• spurry
• spurt
• spurting
• spurtle
• sputnik
• sputter
• sputtering
• sputum
• sputum smear
• spy
• spy satellite
• Spyeria
• spyglass
• spyhole
• spying