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Definition of Plume thistle
1. Noun. Any of numerous biennial to perennial herbs with handsome purple or yellow or occasionally white flower heads.
Generic synonyms: Thistle
Group relationships: Cirsium, Genus Cirsium
Specialized synonyms: Canada Thistle, Cirsium Arvense, Creeping Thistle, Cirsium Flodmanii, Woolly Thistle, Brook Thistle, Cirsium Rivulare, Boar Thistle, Bull Thistle, Cirsium Lanceolatum, Cirsium Vulgare, Spear Thistle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Plume Thistle
Literary usage of Plume thistle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Farmer's Encyclopædia, and Dictionary of Rural Affairs: Embracing All by Cuthbert William Johnson (1844)
"There are in England nine indigenous species of plume thistle. ... Those which
give most trouble to the farmer are, the , Marsh plume-thistle ..."
2. The flora of Harrow by James Cosmo Melvill (1876)
"(Spear plume thistle.) Way sides and pastures. 7, 8. ... (Creeping Field Plume
Thistle.) Fields and road sides. 7, 8. Everywhere abundant. 4. C. pratensis. ..."
3. The History and Antiquities of Newbury and Its Environs: Including Twenty (1839)
"... (Spear Plume-thistle) palustris, (Marsh Plume-thistle) arvensis, ... (melancholy
Plume-thistle) Woodhay and Cold-Ash commons, 1'en wood, &c. ..."
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