sow thistle

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• IPA^(key): /saʊ θɪsl̩/

sow thistle (countable and uncountable, plural sow thistles)

1. 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: […] 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.

• 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)