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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of erect herbs, natural order Compositæ, resembling the thistles (Cnicus), from which they are distinguished by the fact that the bristles of the pappus are not plumose.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun a genus of annual or perennial Old World prickly thistles.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun genus of annual or perennial Old World prickly thistles

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