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sowthistle

sowthistle 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 sowthistle

pluralsowthistles

Questions about sowthistle

What is sowthistle the alternative spelling of?
Sowthistle is the alternative spelling of sow thistle.

Words near sowthistle in the dictionary

  1. sowter
  2. sowters
  3. sowth
  4. sowthed
  5. sowthing
  6. sowthistle
  7. sowthistles
  8. sowths
  9. Sowton
  10. Sowunmi
  11. sowwie

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