sow thistle
See also: sowthistle and sow-thistle
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sow thistle (countable and uncountable, plural sow thistles)
- Any of the thistles in one of the genera Cicerbita and Sonchus.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 5, member 1, subsection vi:
- The decoction of the roots of sow-thistle before meat, by the same author is much approved.
Derived terms edit
- alpine blue sowthistle (Cicerbita spp.)
- common sow thistle (Sonchus oleraceus)
- creeping sow thistle, field sow thistle, perennial European sow thistle (Sonchus arvensis)
- prickly sow thistle, spiny sow thistle (Sonchus asper)
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