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Definition of Plumed thistle
1. Noun. Any of numerous biennial to perennial herbs with handsome purple or yellow or occasionally white flower heads.
Generic synonyms: Thistle
Group relationships: Cirsium, Genus Cirsium
Specialized synonyms: Canada Thistle, Cirsium Arvense, Creeping Thistle, Cirsium Flodmanii, Woolly Thistle, Brook Thistle, Cirsium Rivulare, Boar Thistle, Bull Thistle, Cirsium Lanceolatum, Cirsium Vulgare, Spear Thistle
Definition of Plumed thistle
1. Noun. Spear thistle''. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Plumed Thistle
Literary usage of Plumed thistle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Manual of the Botany (Phænogamia and Pteridophyta) of the Rocky Mountain by John Merle Coulter (1885)
"plumed thistle. Stout herbs; with sessile leaves, commonly with prickly teeth
and tips, and large or middle-sized heads : the flowers red or purple, ..."
2. Manual of the Botany (Phaenogamia and Pteridophyta) of the Rocky Mountain by John Merle Coulter (1885)
"plumed thistle. Stont herbs; with sessile leaves, commonly with prickly teeth
and tips, and large or middle-sized heads : the flowers red or purple, ..."
3. Manual of the Botany (Phaenogamia and Pteridophyta) of the Rocky Mountain by John Merle Coulter (1885)
"plumed thistle. Stout herbs; with sessile leaves, commonly with prickly teeth
and tips, and large or middle-sized heads : the flowers red or purple, ..."
4. A Text-book of Botany by Eduard Strasburger (1898)
"Carduus (Plumeless Thistle), involucre prickly, hairs of pappus naked ;
Cirsium (Common or plumed thistle), like the preceding, but with feathery pappus ..."
5. Manual of the Botany (Phænogamia and Pteridophyta) of the Rocky Mountain by John Merle Coulter (1885)
"plumed thistle. Stout herbs; with sessile leaves, commonly with prickly teeth
and tips, and large or middle-sized heads : the flowers red or purple, ..."
6. Manual of the Botany (Phaenogamia and Pteridophyta) of the Rocky Mountain by John Merle Coulter (1885)
"plumed thistle. Stont herbs; with sessile leaves, commonly with prickly teeth
and tips, and large or middle-sized heads : the flowers red or purple, ..."
7. Manual of the Botany (Phaenogamia and Pteridophyta) of the Rocky Mountain by John Merle Coulter (1885)
"plumed thistle. Stout herbs; with sessile leaves, commonly with prickly teeth
and tips, and large or middle-sized heads : the flowers red or purple, ..."
8. A Text-book of Botany by Eduard Strasburger (1898)
"Carduus (Plumeless Thistle), involucre prickly, hairs of pappus naked ;
Cirsium (Common or plumed thistle), like the preceding, but with feathery pappus ..."
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