sow thistle

See also: sowthistle

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sow thistle (plural sow thistles)

  1. Any of the thistles in one of the genera Cicerbita and Sonchus.
    • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970, partition II, section 5, member 1, subsection vi:
      The decoction of the roots of sow-thistle before meat, by the same author is much approved.

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