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thistleballs

thistleballs is the plural of thistleball.

Meaning of thistleball

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

Questions about thistleballs

What is thistleballs the plural of?
Thistleballs is the plural of thistleball.

Words near thistleballs in the dictionary

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

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