NOUN
- tall Old World biennial thistle with large clasping white-blotched leaves and purple flower heads; naturalized in California and South America
How To Use Silybum marianum In A Sentence
- (Silybum marianum), a powerful regenerator of the liver, blessed thistle, dandelion root, Oregon grape or barberry root, artichokes and artichoke leaf tea, boldo (Peumus bodus), yellow dock root (Rumex crispus), and Chinese bupleurum root. THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE
- In France and Germany names meaning ‘wild artichoke’ are given to various thistles with edible heads, including the smooth carline thistle, Carlina acaulis, and milk thistle, Silybum marianum.
