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Definition of Cnicus
1. Noun. One species: blessed thistle.
Generic synonyms: Asterid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Aster Family, Asteraceae, Compositae, Family Asteraceae, Family Compositae
Member holonyms: Blessed Thistle, Cnicus Benedictus, Sweet Sultan
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cnicus
Literary usage of Cnicus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"cnicus of many auth., not L. By some recent Am. auth. included in CARDUUS. ...
(Cardans L.; cnicus Willd.)—Pastures and roadsides. July-Nov. (Nat. from Eu. ..."
2. The Phytologist: A Popular Botanical Miscellany edited by George Luxford, Edward Newman (1847)
"Remarks on cnicus Forsteri (Smith). By DAVID MOOKE, Esq. IN the ' Phytologist'
for this month, your correspondent " C." in his notice of the second edition ..."
3. American Medical and Philosophical Register: Or, Annals of Medicine, Natural by John Wakefield Francis (1814)
"... the Canada Thistle or cnicus Arvensis, with Observations on the Means of
destroying it, or preventing its Increase. Communicated in a letter to the Hon. ..."
4. The Flowering Plants of Tunbridge Wells & Neighbourhood by Richard Deakin (1871)
"... lanceolate, the . outer ones with a spinous point. Florig. Brit. 1055, f.
1246; cnicus, Willd. Hook. & Arnott Brit. Fl. 233 ; FL Tunbridge Wells 41. ..."
5. Report of the Geological Survey of Ohio by Geological Survey of Ohio (1893)
"Common over the state. CARDUUS DISCOLOR (Muhl.) N'utt. (cnicus ... CARDUUS
MUTICUS (Mx.) Nutt (cnicus muticus Pursh ) Apparently over the whole state. ..."
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