Definitions
Prickly flowering plant with spiny leaves.
Word origin
From Middle English thistel, from Old English þistel, from Proto-West Germanic *þistil, from Proto-Germanic *þistilaz. *þīh- from *teyg-, which is a variant of Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- (“to prick”); from this same Proto-Indo-European root comes English stick.
Used in a sentence
“Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field [...].”
“I wasn’t born of a whistle, or milked from a thistle at twilight / No; I was all horns and thorns, sprung out fully formed, knock-kneed and upright”
“Here's a passage which will please you: ‘It is said that when rich he twice refused the thistle.’”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Spiny bloom”7 letters
02“Prickly purple flower”7 letters
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