sow thistle

See also: sowthistle and sow-thistle

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  • IPA(key): /saʊ θɪsl̩/

Noun

sow thistle (countable and uncountable, plural sow thistles)

  1. Any of the thistles in one of the genera Cicerbita and Sonchus.
    • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 5, member 1, subsection vi:
      The decoction of the roots of sow-thistle before meat, by the same author is much approved.

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