Search Result:milk thistle
Overview of noun milk_thistle
The noun milk thistle has 2 senses
- sow thistle, milk thistle -- (any of several Old World coarse prickly-leaved shrubs and subshrubs having milky juice and yellow flowers; widely naturalized; often noxious weeds in cultivated soil)
- milk thistle, lady's thistle, Our Lady's mild thistle, holy thistle, blessed thistle, Silybum marianum -- (tall Old World biennial thistle with large clasping white-blotched leaves and purple flower heads; naturalized in California and South America)