sonchus oleraceus

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   annual Eurasian sow thistle with soft spiny leaves and rayed yellow flower heads

   Synonymsmilkweed

   Broadersow thistle

Questions about sonchus oleraceus

What does sonchus oleraceus mean?

sonchus oleraceus means "annual Eurasian sow thistle with soft spiny leaves and rayed yellow flower heads".

What is another word for sonchus oleraceus?

Close synonyms include milkweed. 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 sonchus oleraceus a common word?

sonchus oleraceus 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.