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sow-thistle

sow-thistle is the alternative spelling of sow thistle.

Meaning of sow thistle

Noun

sow thistle (countable and uncountable, plural sow thistles)

  1. Any of the thistles in one of the genera Cicerbita and Sonchus.
    • The decoction of the roots of sow-thistle before meat, by the same author is much approved.1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II...

Forms of sow-thistle

pluralsow-thistles

Questions about sow-thistle

What is sow-thistle the alternative spelling of?
Sow-thistle is the alternative spelling of sow thistle.

Words near sow-thistle in the dictionary

  1. sow thistles
  2. sow wild oats
  3. sow'n
  4. sow's baby
  5. sow-bread
  6. sow-thistle
  7. sow-thistles
  8. Sowa
  9. Sowa-Rigpa
  10. sowability
  11. sowable

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