cirsium arvense

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   European thistle naturalized in United States and Canada where it is a pernicious weed

   SynonymsCanada thistlecreeping thistle

   Broaderplume thistle

Questions about cirsium arvense

What does cirsium arvense mean?

cirsium arvense means "European thistle naturalized in United States and Canada where it is a pernicious weed".

What is another word for cirsium arvense?

Close synonyms include Canada thistle, creeping 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 cirsium arvense a common word?

cirsium arvense 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.