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thistleball

thistleball noun: a spherical thistle.

Noun

thistleball (countable and uncountable, plural thistleballs)

  1. (countable) A spherical thistle.
  2. (nonce-word, uncountable) Thistledown.
    • We dance in heys around the hall, / Weightless as thistleball1922, Thomas Hardy, “The Dream is—Which?”, in Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses, London: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC

Forms of thistleball

pluralthistleballs

Origin of thistleball

From thistle + ball.

Questions about thistleball

What does thistleball mean?
Thistleball means a spherical thistle.
What part of speech is thistleball?
Thistleball is a noun.
What is the plural of thistleball?
The plural of thistleball is thistleballs.

Words near thistleball in the dictionary

  1. thistle funnel
  2. thistle funnels
  3. thistle sage
  4. thistle tube
  5. thistle tubes
  6. thistleball
  7. thistleballs
  8. thistled
  9. thistledown
  10. thistledowns
  11. thistlefinch

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