thistle
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1. thistle - Noun
2. Thistle - Proper noun
Meaning
Any one of several prickly composite plants, especially those of the genera Cnicus, Craduus, and Onopordon. The name is often also applied to other prickly plants.
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Nothing is less promising than precociousness; the young thistle looks much more like a future tree than the young oak.
The wind is not helpless for any man's need, Nor falleth the rain but for thistle and weed.
Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.
Along crags and sunless cracks I go, Up rib of rock, down spine of stone, I dare not slumber where the right winds whistle, Lest her creeping-soul clutch this heart of thistle.
He that will bare-foot go must not plant a garden of thistle.
A thistle is a fat salad for an ass's mouth.