field thistle

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   stout North American thistle with purplish-pink flower heads

   SynonymsCirsium discolor

   Broaderthistle

Questions about field thistle

What does field thistle mean?

field thistle means "stout North American thistle with purplish-pink flower heads".

What is another word for field thistle?

Close synonyms include Cirsium discolor. 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 field thistle a common word?

field 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.