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common sow thistle

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.00 in modern English

Syllables
com-mon -sow this-tle
IPA
28
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Milk thistle (Sonchus oleraceus), native to western Eurasia.

Countable; Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

common sow thistles (plural)

Synonyms

annual sow thistle hare's colwort hare's thistle milky tassel smooth sow thistle soft thistle swinies

Questions

What does common sow thistle mean?
Milk thistle (Sonchus oleraceus), native to western Eurasia.

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