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Definition of Milk thistle

1. Noun. Any of several Old World coarse prickly-leaved shrubs and subshrubs having milky juice and yellow flowers; widely naturalized; often noxious weeds in cultivated soil.

2. Noun. Tall Old World biennial thistle with large clasping white-blotched leaves and purple flower heads; naturalized in California and South America.

Definition of Milk thistle

1. Noun. Any of the thistles in the genus ''Silybum''. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Milk Thistle

milk shake milk sibling milk siblings milk sickness milk sister milk sisters milk snake milk snakes milk spots milk substitute

milk substitutes milk sugar milk tea milk teeth milk tetter milk thistle (current term) milk thistles milk tooth milk vetch milk wagon

milk whey milkable milkaholic milkaholics milkbar milkbars milkcap milkcrate milkcrates milked

Literary usage of Milk thistle

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. First Impressions of England and Its People by Hugh Miller (1860)
"Rustic Bridge. — Scene of the f ' Needless Alarm." — The milk thistle. OLNEY! Weston-Underwood ! Yardley-Chase ! the banks of the Ouse, and the park of the ..."

2. Alternative Medicine: Expanding Medical Horizons by DIANE Publishing Company (1995)
"milk thistle (Silybum marianum). milk thistle has been used as a liver remedy for 2000 ... More recently, a 6-month treatment of milk thistle significantly ..."

3. Australia Twice Traversed: The Romance of Exploration, Being a Narrative by Ernest Giles (1889)
"milk thistle—In the glen—A serpentine and ... indeed the only green herb met by us, for some considerable distance, has been the sow or milk thistle ..."

4. Flowers and their associations by Anne Pratt (1840)
"... PLANTS—SOCIAL PLANTS—VIRTUES FORMERLY ASCRIBED TO HERBS EYE-BRIGHT BORAGE MOON- WORT RUE. OR HERB OF GRACE HOLY HERB ENCHANTER'S NIGHTSHADE—milk thistle ..."

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