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bull thistle
noun
- a tall, spiny thistle, Cirsium vulgare, having heads of pink to purple flowers: a common weed in North America.
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of bull thistle1
First recorded in 1860–65
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I would hear them every morning when I passed the railroad car and paused over the chickweed and bull thistle growing where Tyler had buried the rifle.
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Many wild American plants are edible but unavailable in supermarkets: dandelion, pig weed, bull thistle, skunk vine.
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Weeds are annuals, as pigweeds, crab grass, purslane; biennials as bull thistle and mulleins; perennials, like quack grass, Canada thistle, ox-eye Daisy.
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No bull thistles, no hard winters, no narrer contracted fools; no long faces, an' plenty o' work.
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