Definition of Carduus

1. Noun. Genus of annual or perennial Old World prickly thistles.


Definition of Carduus

1. a thistle [n -ES] - See also: thistle

Lexicographical Neighbors of Carduus

Cardiovirus
Cardium
Cardium edule
Cardizem
Carducci
Carduelinae
Carduelis
Carduelis cannabina
Carduelis carduelis
Carduelis cucullata
Carduelis flammea
Carduelis hornemanni
Carduelis spinus
Carduus (current term)
Carduus crispus
Carduus nutans
Care Bear
Care Bears
Care Sunday
Carelian
Caren
Caretta
Caretta caretta
Carew
Carex
Carex arenaria
Carex pseudocyperus
Carey

Literary usage of Carduus

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Torreya by Torrey Botanical Club (1916)
"SHORTER NOTES Is Carduus UNDULATUS NUTT. FOUND IN COLORADO? When, a number of years ago, I began collecting botanical specimens in Colorado, and later began ..."

2. The Natural History of Pliny by Pliny, John Bostock, Henry Thomas Riley (1856)
"There is, however, this difference among these plants, that some of them have numerous stems and branches, such as the carduus, for instance ; while others, ..."

3. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"(Carduus Nutt.; Cnicus Gray.) — Islands of L. Huron to Mich., la., Kan., and westw. June-Oct. Var. ..."

4. English Botany; Or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with Their Essential ...by Sir James Edward Smith, James Sowerby by Sir James Edward Smith, James Sowerby (1810)
"Carduus nutans. Linn. Sp. Pi . 1150. Sm. Fl. £«/.848. Hudf. 350. ... Carduus which remains to be ..."

5. Hortus Kewensis; Or, A Catalogue of the Plants Cultivated in the Royal by William Aiton (1814)
"Carduus syriacus. Ed. pr. í A palustris, marsh. Carduus palustris. Ed. pr. lanceolatus, spear. ... 1633 Carduus canus. Ed. pr. monspessulanus,Montpelier. ..."

6. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes by Robert Burton (1836)
"To purge and purify the blood, use sowthistle, succory, sena, endive, carduus benedictus, dandelion, hop, maidenhair, ..."

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