cotton thistle
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of cotton thistle
First recorded in 1540–50
Example Sentences
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Above it, towers the Illyrian cotton thistle, whose straight and solitary stalk soars to a height of three to six feet and ends in large pink tufts.
From The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander
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