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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024this•tle /ˈθɪsəl/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- Plant Biologya prickly plant usually having purple flower heads.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024this•tle (this′əl),USA pronunciation n. - Plant Biologyany of various prickly, composite plants having showy, purple flower heads, esp. of the genera Cirsium, Carduus, or Onopordum.
- Plant Biologyany of various other prickly plants.
- bef. 900; Middle English thistel, Old English; cognate with Dutch distel, German Distel, Old Norse thistill
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: thistle /ˈθɪsəl/ n - any of numerous plants of the genera Cirsium,Carduus, and related genera, having prickly-edged leaves, pink, purple, yellow, or white dense flower heads, and feathery hairs on the seeds: family Asteraceae (composites)
- a thistle, or a representation of one, as the national emblem of Scotland
Etymology: Old English thīstel, related to Old Saxon, Old High German thīstil, Old Norse thīstillˈthistly adj |