plumed thistle

1. 1.

   any of numerous biennial to perennial herbs with handsome purple or yellow or occasionally white flower heads

   Synonymsplume thistle

   Broaderthistle

   NarrowerCanada thistlewoolly thistlebrook thistlebull thistle

   Part ofCirsium

Questions about plumed thistle

What does plumed thistle mean?

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

What is another word for plumed thistle?

Close synonyms include plume 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 plumed thistle a common word?

plumed 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.