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: any of various prickly composite plants (especially genera Carduus, Cirsium, and Onopordum) with often showy heads of mostly tubular flowers
also
: any of various other prickly plants
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But how can the thistle survive, much less bloom, when its neighbors are reduced to twigs and dust?
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Elizabeth Anne Brown, Scientific American, 27 Feb. 2024
Adjacent to the installation lies Where the soil has been disturbed, a 2022 work that consists of a field of free-standing steel panels fronted by concrete bricks from which petrified Syrian thistles grow.
—Harrison Jacobs, ARTnews.com, 3 Sep. 2019
There’s an image in this piece that looks like a topographical map of a river valley, which is paired with a drawing of a woman next to a thistle.
—Harrison Jacobs, ARTnews.com, 3 Sep. 2019
The butterflies are attracted to over 100 different kinds of flowers, states Gardenia, but prefer flowers from the Family Asteraceae, like thistles.
—Julia Gomez, USA TODAY, 13 July 2024
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Elizabeth Anne Brown, Scientific American, 27 Feb. 2024
Adjacent to the installation lies Where the soil has been disturbed, a 2022 work that consists of a field of free-standing steel panels fronted by concrete bricks from which petrified Syrian thistles grow.
—Harrison Jacobs, ARTnews.com, 3 Sep. 2019
There’s an image in this piece that looks like a topographical map of a river valley, which is paired with a drawing of a woman next to a thistle.
—Harrison Jacobs, ARTnews.com, 3 Sep. 2019
The butterflies are attracted to over 100 different kinds of flowers, states Gardenia, but prefer flowers from the Family Asteraceae, like thistles.
—Julia Gomez, USA TODAY, 13 July 2024
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thistle
noun
this·tle
ˈthis-əl 
: any of various prickly plants related to the daisies and having often showy heads of mostly tubular flowers
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