horse thistle

1. 1.

   European annual wild lettuce having prickly stems; a troublesome weed in parts of United States

   Synonymsprickly lettuceLactuca serriolaLactuca scariola

   Broadercompass plant

Questions about horse thistle

What does horse thistle mean?

horse thistle means "European annual wild lettuce having prickly stems; a troublesome weed in parts of United States".

What is another word for horse thistle?

Close synonyms include prickly lettuce, Lactuca serriola, Lactuca scariola. 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 horse thistle a common word?

horse 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.