sow thistle

See also: sowthistle

English

Noun

sow thistle (plural sow thistles)

1. Any of the thistles in one of the genera and Sonchus.
   • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and Iames 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.

Derived terms

• common sow thistle (Sonchus oleraceus)
• creeping sow thistle, field sow thistle, perennial European sow thistle ()
• prickly sow thistle, spiny sow thistle ()

Translations

thistle

• Armenian: կաթնբեկ (hy) (katʻnbek), իշամառոլ (išamaṙol)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 荼 (zh) (tú)

  Min Nan: 荼 (tô͘)

• Finnish: valvatti (fi)
• Georgian: ღიჭა (ɣič̣a)
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• Greek: ζοχός (el) m (zochós)

  Ancient: σόγχος m (sónkhos)

• Irish: bainne muice m, bleachtán m, bleachtfheochadán m, slóchtán m
• Maori: pūwhā, pūhā, rauriki, raurōroa
• Mingrelian: ბურცხალე (burcxale), გინიში ჯონჯღო (giniši ǯonǯɣo), გინიშ ჯღონჯღო (giniš ǯɣonǯɣo)
• Scottish Gaelic: cluaran-cruaidh m