thistle

How To Use thistle In A Sentence

• Tom Thumb's mother once took him with her when she went to milk the cow; and it being a very windy day, she tied him with a needleful of thread to a thistle, that he might not be blown away.
• Common knapweed is like a pretty thistle without prickles. Times, Sunday Times
• The message from Thistle, though, is they are not makeweights in this Premierleague.
• Regrowth usually occurs, but this treatment will reduce competition from Canada thistle in soybeans and help prevent production of more rootstock.
• These so-called host plants include many broadleaf weeds and cover crops such as nettles, mallow, chicory, dandelion, thistles, bindweed, deadly nightshade, and many clovers.
• The plants sprouting now include grasses, clovers, dandelions, several types of thistle, mustards, and small composites.
• The thistle at far right signifies the Scottish-born Stewart's ancestry, that plant being Scotland's national emblem.
• Containing dandelion, burdock, sarsparilla, milk thistle, liquorice, yellow dock, turmeric and red clover, a bottle provides about 30 servings as you dilute it with either still or sparkling water.
• WHY are the leaves on my globe thistle turning brown? The Sun
• The thistles, knapweeds and willowherbs are truer purple, but the bluish nettle-leaved bellflowers and field scabious are also tinged with that mysterious shadow which has more to do with night than golden day. Country diary: Wenlock Edge