tall Old World biennial thistle with large clasping white-blotched leaves and purple flower heads; naturalized in California and South America
European weed having a winged stem and hairy leaves; adventive in the eastern United States
Mediterranean annual or biennial herb having pinkish to purple flowers surrounded by spine-tipped scales; naturalized in America
any of numerous plants of the family Compositae and especially of the genera Carduus and Cirsium and Onopordum having prickly-edged leaves
belonging to or derived from or associated with a divine power
a sacred place of pilgrimage
