Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun cirsium_heterophylum

1 sense of cirsium heterophylum

Sense 1
melancholy thistle, Cirsium heterophylum, Cirsium helenioides -- (perennial stoloniferous thistle of northern Europe with lanceolate basal leaves and usually solitary heads of reddish-purple flowers)
       => thistle -- (any of numerous plants of the family Compositae and especially of the genera Carduus and Cirsium and Onopordum having prickly-edged leaves)