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Noun: sow thistle
  1. 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

Derived forms: sow thistles

Type of: bush, shrub

Part of: genus Sonchus, Sonchus

Encyclopedia: Sow thistle