musk thistle

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A biennial herb of species Carduus nutans, in the sunflower family Asteraceae with a large drooping purple flower head, native to parts of Eurasia and North Africa and a common invasive species elsewhere.
    — The Muske-Thistle I haue seene growing about Deptford, and (as far as my memory serues me) it is very like to the third here described: it growes better than a cubit high, with reasonable large leaues, and also heads which are a little soft or downy, large, with purple floures: the heads before the floures open smell strong of muske.

词形变化

musk thistles plural

词源

First attested in 1633; named for the scent of its immature flower heads.
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