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Definition of Thistlelike
1. Adjective. Resembling a thistle.
Definition of Thistlelike
1. Adjective. Having the form or characteristics of a thistle ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thistlelike
Literary usage of Thistlelike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Familiar Flowers of Field and Garden by Ferdinand Schuyler Mathews (1895)
"Thoreau says in his journal, July 2d : "I see the downy heads of the senecio gone
to seed, thistlelike, but small. ..."
2. Weeds of the North Central States edited by Lloyd M. Wax, Richard S. Fawcett, Duane Isely (1999)
"... prickly heads; fruit seedlike, dry; plants erect, 1 to 6 feet (0.3 to 1.8 m)
tall, little branched with the main axis (stem) predominant, thistlelike. ..."
3. The Boy Scouts' Year Book by Boy Scouts of America (1921)
"... of the small thistlelike seeds was gathered in an instant, and away! but I
had followed the direction—straight toward the house. ..."
4. The World Book: Organized Knowledge in Story and Picture edited by Michael Vincent O'Shea, Ellsworth D. Foster, George Herbert Locke (1917)
"... a thistlelike plant belonging to the Composite family (which see). It is
cultivated in India, China, Egypt and Southern Europe for its orange-colored ..."
5. Catalogue of a Loan Exhibition of Early Oriental Rugs by Wilhelm Reinhold Valentiner (1910)
"Inner Guard Border: On a green ground, arabesques and thistlelike motives in red,
pink, and silver. Outer Guard Border: On a green ground pal- mettes in ..."
6. Appleton's New Practical Cyclopedia: A New Work of Reference Based Upon the edited by Marcus Benjamin, Arthur Elmore Bostwick, Gerald Van Casteel, George Jotham Hagar (1920)
"The plant is an annual, 1 to 3 ft. high, with spiny leaves, and dark orange
flowers in thistlelike heads with a prickly involucre. ..."
7. How Plants are Trained to Work for Man by Luther Burbank (1921)
"It bears scant resemblance to the wild prototype; except, indeed, that the
essential flower organs at its center have the same thistlelike appearance. ..."
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