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Definition of Sow 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.
Group relationships: Genus Sonchus, Sonchus
Specialized synonyms: Milkweed, Sonchus Oleraceus
Generic synonyms: Bush, Shrub
Definition of Sow thistle
1. Noun. Any of the thistles in one of the genera ''Cicerbita'' and ''Sonchus''. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sow Thistle
Literary usage of Sow thistle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletin by North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station (Fargo) (1899)
"From the different effects of Canada Thistle and sow thistle upon the wheat sown
with the weeds, it is evident that the sow thistle has a stronger hold upon ..."
2. Infant Feeding and Its Influence on Life, Or, The Causes and Prevention of by Charles Henry Felix Routh (1879)
"Remedies : Laver—Borage—Lettuce—Sow-thistle—Rocket— Castor-oil Leaves—Tapioca—Partridge
Berry—Cytisus—Milk-weed—Mallow—Gith —Pulsatilla—Common ..."
3. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1898)
"... L. Annual Sow-Thistle. Hare's Lettuce. (Fig- 3535•) Sonchus oleraceus L. Sp.
PI. 794. 1753. Annual, with fibrous roots; stem leafy below, nearly simple, ..."
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