plume thistle

Questions about plume thistle

What does plume thistle mean?

plume thistle means "any of numerous biennial to perennial herbs with handsome purple or yellow or occasionally white flower heads".

What is another word for plume thistle?

Close synonyms include plumed thistle. 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 plume thistle a common word?

plume 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.