English noun: sow thistle | |||
1. | sow thistle (plant) any of several Old World coarse prickly-leaved shrubs and subshrubs having milky juice and yellow flowers; widely naturalized; often noxious weeds in cultivated soil | ||
Synonyms | milk thistle | ||
Broader (hypernym) | bush, shrub | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | milkweed, Sonchus oleraceus | ||
Member meronym | genus Sonchus, Sonchus | ||