thistles
noun
Meaning
- Any of several perennial composite plants, especially of genera Cirsium, Carduus, Cynara, or Onopordum, having prickly leaves and showy flower heads with prickly bracts.
- This plant seen as the national emblem of Scotland.
- This plant used as a charge.
- The Order of the Thistle, or membership thereof.
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