common carline thistle

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   Eurasian thistle growing in sand dunes and dry chalky soils

   SynonymsCarlina vulgaris

   Broadercarline thistle

Questions about common carline thistle

What does common carline thistle mean?

common carline thistle means "Eurasian thistle growing in sand dunes and dry chalky soils".

What is another word for common carline thistle?

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

common carline 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.