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milk thistle

noun

1. any of several Old World coarse prickly-leaved shrubs and subshrubs having milky juice and yellow flowers; widely naturalized; often noxious weeds in cultivated soil

• Syn: ↑sow thistle

• Hypernyms: ↑shrub, ↑bush

• Hyponyms: ↑milkweed, ↑Sonchus oleraceus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Sonchus, ↑genus Sonchus

2. tall Old World biennial thistle with large clasping white-blotched leaves and purple flower heads; naturalized in California and South America

• Syn: ↑lady's thistle, ↑Our Lady's mild thistle, ↑holy thistle, ↑blessed thistle, ↑Silybum marianum

• Hypernyms: ↑herb, ↑herbaceous plant

• Member Holonyms: ↑Silybum, ↑genus Silybum

Useful english dictionary. 2012.