white thistle Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun any plant of the genus Argemone having large white or yellow flowers and prickly leaves and stems and pods; chiefly of tropical America
    prickly poppy; devil's fig; argemone.
  2. noun spiny shrub with silvery-scurfy foliage of alkaline plains of southwestern United States and Mexico
    Atriplex lentiformis; quail brush; quail bush.

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