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thistle (plural thistles)

Any of several perennial composite plants, especially of genera Cirsium, Carduus, Cynara, or Onopordum, having prickly leaves and showy flower heads with prickly bracts.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981:
  , Genesis 3:18:
  Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field [...].
This plant seen as the national emblem of Scotland.
(heraldry) This plant used as a charge.
The Order of the Thistle, or membership thereof.
- 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 324:
  Here's a passage which will please you: ‘It is said that when rich he twice refused the thistle.’

plant

Albanian: gjembaç (sq) m, rrëfeshk (sq) m, ferreckë (sq) f, gjemb gomari m
Arabic:
Moroccan Arabic: شوك‎ m (šūk)
Armenian: տատասկափուշ (hy) (tataskapʿuš), ուղտափուշ (hy) (ułtapʿuš), տատասկ (hy) (tatask)
Basque: kardu
Belarusian: чартапало́х m (čartapalóx)
Bulgarian: магарешки бодил (magareški bodil)
Catalan: card (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 薊 (zh), 蓟 (zh) (jì)
Cornish: askallen f
Czech: bodlák (cs) m
Danish: tidsel (da) c
Dutch: distel (nl) m
Esperanto: kardo
Estonian: takjas (et)
Finnish: ohdake (fi), takiainen (fi)
French: chardon (fr) m
Galician: cardo (gl) m, cardio m, toba (gl) f, arzola f, melardo m
German: Distel (de) f
Gothic: 𐍅𐌹𐌲𐌰𐌳𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍉𐌼 f (wigadeinōm) (dative plural; lemma uncertain)
Greek: γαϊδουράγκαθο (el) n (gaïdourágkatho)
Ancient: βαρακίνη f (barakínē)
Hebrew: קוֹץ‎ (he) m (qotz)
Hungarian: bogáncs (hu)
Ido: kardono (io)
Irish: feochadán m, cluarán m
Italian: cardo (it) m
Japanese: 薊 (ja) (あざみ, azami), アザミ (azami)