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Definition of Blue thistle
1. Noun. A coarse prickly European weed with spikes of blue flowers; naturalized in United States.
Generic synonyms: Herb, Herbaceous Plant
Group relationships: Echium, Genus Echium
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blue Thistle
Literary usage of Blue thistle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Botany of the United States North of Virginia: Comprising Descriptions of by Lewis Caleb Beck (1848)
"Introduced. A very showy plant when in full flower, out in many places becoming
troublesome. Viper's Bugloss. blue thistle. 6. ..."
2. Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness by Gaelic Society of Inverness (1881)
"The bonnie blue Thistle of Scotland for me ! Our emblem—true blue as the heaven
above it— What bard worth the name would not proudly sing of it ] What ..."
3. Stray Leaves from a Border Garden by Mary Pamela (Ellis) Milne-Home (1901)
"My blue thistle is looking very pretty, although, unluckily, ... I have been told
that in Roumania there are sometimes whole acres of the blue thistle, ..."
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