thistle
noun
any of various prickly, composite plants having showy, purple flower heads, especially of the genera Cirsium, Carduus, or Onopordum.
thistlelike
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a word derived from
thistle.
Example Sentences
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Any I leave uncut will tower over the garden like neon-blue torches as the amazing thistlelike flowers start to bloom.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 25, 2017
Once we came upon a field of thistlelike plants with spiny seed-pods that opened as we watched, the purple spores drifting afield in an eddy of tinted mist.
From Competition by James Causey
