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

2 senses of woolly thistle

Sense 1
cotton thistle, woolly thistle, Scotch thistle, Onopordum acanthium, Onopordon acanthium -- (biennial Eurasian white hairy thistle having pale purple flowers; naturalized in North America)
       => thistle -- (any of numerous plants of the family Compositae and especially of the genera Carduus and Cirsium and Onopordum having prickly-edged leaves)

Sense 2
woolly thistle, Cirsium flodmanii -- (thistle of western North America having white woolly leaves)
       => plume thistle, plumed thistle -- (any of numerous biennial to perennial herbs with handsome purple or yellow or occasionally white flower heads)