blessed thistle

Questions about blessed thistle

What does blessed thistle mean?

blessed thistle means "tall Old World biennial thistle with large clasping white-blotched leaves and purple flower heads; naturalized in California and South America". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for blessed thistle?

Close synonyms include milk thistle, lady's thistle, Our Lady's mild thistle, holy thistle, Silybum marianum. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is blessed thistle a common word?

blessed thistle is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.