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Some thistles are garden plants whilst others are troublesome weeds. Some varieties are used, in the young, nonspiny stage, as animal fodder.

Any of a group of prickly plants with spiny stems, soft cottony purple flower heads, and deeply indented leaves with prickly edges. The thistle is the national emblem of Scotland. (Genera include Carduus, Carlina, Onopordum, and Cirsium; family Compositae.)



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Then Thistle hastened to the lily, for her cup was deep, and the white leaves fell like curtains over the fragrant bed; he was a dainty little Elf, and could not sleep among the clovers and bright buttercups.
Flower Fables by Alcott, Louisa May View in context
And although I do not think you will care to read his poems for a very long time to come, I write about him here both because he was a great poet and because with one of his poems, The Thistle and the Rose, he takes us back, as it were, over the Border into England once more.
English Literature For Boys And Girls by Marshall, H.E. View in context
The case is different with the giant thistle (with variegated leaves) of the Pampas, for I met with it in the valley of the Sauce.
The Voyage of the Beagle by Darwin, Charles View in context
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