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Synonyms
1. yellow_star-thistle
noun. European weed having a winged stem and hairy leaves; adventive in the eastern United States.
Synonyms
Rhymes with Russian Thistle
- euromissile
- antimissile
- entwistle
- dismissal
- whistle
- gristle
- glycel
- epistle
- bristle
- wissel
- this'll
- sissel
- schissel
- missile
- missel
- missal
- kissell
- kissel
- hisel
- fissile
- fissell
- fissel
- cissell
- bissell
- bisel
3. star-thistle
noun. Mediterranean annual or biennial herb having pinkish to purple flowers surrounded by spine-tipped scales; naturalized in America.
Synonyms
4. Russian
noun. a native or inhabitant of Russia.
Synonyms
- Cheremiss
- Karelian
- Muscovite
- Tatar
- Soviet Russia
- Mordva
- indigene
- Yeniseian
- native
- Udmurt
- Georgian
- Great Russian
- Nganasan
- aboriginal
- Vepse
- Vepsian
- Ostyak
- Veps
- Ingrian
- Mordvinian
- Mordvin
- Votyak
- Siberian
- Cheremis
- Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic
- Selkup
- Vogul
- Ostyak-Samoyed
- Carelian
- Chechen
- Samoyed
- indigen
- Ingerman
- Komi
- Russia
- Mansi
- Khanty
- Inger
- Mari
6. thistle
noun. ['ˈθɪsəl'] any of numerous plants of the family Compositae and especially of the genera Carduus and Cirsium and Onopordum having prickly-edged leaves.
Synonyms
- sweet sultan
- family Asteraceae
- Cnicus benedictus
- field thistle
- nodding thistle
- plumed thistle
- Onopordon acanthium
- Asteraceae
- Scotch thistle
- golden thistle
- Carduus crispus
- Cirsium helenioides
- cotton thistle
- Compositae
- aster family
- musk thistle
- plume thistle
- Cirsium heterophylum
- welted thistle
- family Compositae
- Cirsium discolor
- melancholy thistle
- carline thistle
- Onopordum acanthium
- Carduus nutans
- weed
- woolly thistle
Etymology
- þistel (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
