lady's thistle

Questions about lady's thistle

What does lady's thistle mean?

lady's 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 lady's thistle?

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

lady's 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.