Scotch thistle
Americannoun
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Clutching her teddy bear, the curly-haired Princess sits upon Newfoundland's new stamp between a Scotch thistle and an English rose.
From Time Magazine Archive
Scotch kale, a variety of kale; Scotch mist, a mist like fine rain; Scotch pebbles, varieties of agate and jasper; Scotch thistle, the national emblem of Scotland.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
Each morning she would twine a Scotch thistle in her hair, and pin a spray of burdock at her heart.
From Nonsense Novels by Stephen Leacock
The opposition did not want to fight but was intent to discover if the new lad in school would keep his ground saying, like the Scotch thistle, Don't touch me.
From Revisiting the Earth by James Langdon Hill
The Scotch thistle seemed likely at one stage to usurp the whole grass country.
From The Long White Cloud by William Pember Reeves
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