yellow star-thistle

1. 1.

   European weed having a winged stem and hairy leaves; adventive in the eastern United States

   SynonymsBarnaby's thistleCentaurea solstitialis

   Broaderweed

Questions about yellow star-thistle

What does yellow star-thistle mean?

yellow star-thistle means "European weed having a winged stem and hairy leaves; adventive in the eastern United States".

What is another word for yellow star-thistle?

Close synonyms include Barnaby's thistle, Centaurea solstitialis. 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 yellow star-thistle a common word?

yellow star-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.