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Canada thistle   /kˈænədə θˈɪsəl/   Listen
Canada thistle

noun
1.
European thistle naturalized in United States and Canada where it is a pernicious weed.  Synonyms: Cirsium arvense, creeping thistle.






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"Canada thistle" Quotes from Famous Books



... lamprey in American waters—that's a near-fish that sucks the blood of other fish, you know—should be exterminated just in the same way that the farmers of the country are making away with the Canada thistle. Against the sharks—the tigers of the sea, the killers—the wolves of the sea, and all the other predatory forms, relentless war should be waged until the wild fishes of the sea are destroyed, as the wild beasts of the forest have fled before the ...
— The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries • Francis Rolt-Wheeler



Words linked to "Canada thistle" :   plume thistle, plumed thistle



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