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Definition of Creeping thistle
1. Noun. European thistle naturalized in United States and Canada where it is a pernicious weed.
Definition of Creeping thistle
1. Noun. Corn thistle''. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Creeping Thistle
Literary usage of Creeping thistle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Longman's Magazine by Charles James Longman (1886)
"It is a significant fact that the most persistent and troublesome of all these
highly developed kinds, the creeping thistle, now universally diffused by man ..."
2. Bulletin by North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station (Fargo) (1899)
"creeping thistle. Pernicious Thistle. Corn Thistle. Hard Thistle. Cursed Thistle.
This weed seems to thrive well in this state. ..."
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