Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun sow_thistle
1 sense of sow thistle
Sense 1
sow thistle, milk thistle -- (any of several Old World coarse prickly-leaved shrubs and subshrubs having milky juice and yellow flowers; widely naturalized; often noxious weeds in cultivated soil)
=> shrub, bush -- (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)