holy thistle

Questions about holy thistle

What does holy thistle mean?

holy thistle means "tall Old World biennial thistle with large clasping white-blotched leaves and purple flower heads; naturalized in California and South America".

What is another word for holy thistle?

Close synonyms include milk thistle, lady's thistle, Our Lady's mild thistle, blessed thistle, Silybum marianum. 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 holy thistle a common word?

holy 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.