onopordum acanthium

What does onopordum acanthium mean?

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

What is another word for onopordum acanthium?

Close synonyms include cotton thistle, woolly thistle, Scotch thistle, 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 onopordum acanthium a common word?

onopordum acanthium 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 onopordum acanthium come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.