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

1 sense of thistledown

Sense 1
thistledown -- (pappus of a thistle consisting of silky featherlike hairs attached to the seed-like fruit of a thistle)
       => pappus -- (calyx composed of scales or bristles or featherlike hairs in plants of the Compositae such as thistles and dandelions)