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wood-thistles

wood-thistles is the plural of wood-thistle.

Meaning of wood-thistle

Noun

wood-thistle (plural wood-thistles)

  1. Synonym of tall thistle (Cirsium altissimus, syn. Carduus altissimus)
    • Within seconds the whole lot had taken on the appearance of a woodthistle's fluffy seedhead.2005, Paul Stewart, Chris Riddell, The Curse of the Gloamglozer, page 62
    Synonyms:
    tall thistle

Questions about wood-thistles

What is wood-thistles the plural of?
Wood-thistles is the plural of wood-thistle.

Words near wood-thistles in the dictionary

  1. wood-sorrel
  2. wood-sorrels
  3. wood-stove
  4. wood-stoves
  5. wood-thistle
  6. wood-thistles
  7. wood-wide web
  8. wood-wide webs
  9. wood-wife
  10. wood-wives
  11. wood-wool

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