English noun: milk thistle | |||
| 1. | milk 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 | sow thistle | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | bush, shrub | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | milkweed, Sonchus oleraceus | ||
| Member meronym | genus Sonchus, Sonchus | ||
| 2. | milk thistle (plant) tall Old World biennial thistle with large clasping white-blotched leaves and purple flower heads; naturalized in California and South America | ||
| Synonyms | blessed thistle, holy thistle, lady's thistle, Our Lady's mild thistle, Silybum marianum | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | herb, herbaceous plant | ||
| Member meronym | genus Silybum, Silybum | ||