carlina vulgaris

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   Eurasian thistle growing in sand dunes and dry chalky soils

   Synonymscommon carline thistle

   Broadercarline thistle

Questions about carlina vulgaris

What does carlina vulgaris mean?

carlina vulgaris means "Eurasian thistle growing in sand dunes and dry chalky soils".

What is another word for carlina vulgaris?

Close synonyms include common carline thistle. 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 carlina vulgaris a common word?

carlina vulgaris 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.