cotton thistle

What does cotton thistle mean?

cotton thistle means "biennial Eurasian white hairy thistle having pale purple flowers; naturalized in North America".

What is another word for cotton thistle?

Close synonyms include woolly thistle, Scotch thistle, Onopordum acanthium, Onopordon acanthium. 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 cotton thistle a common word?

cotton 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for cotton thistle come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.