Term: musk thistle: Eurasian perennial naturalized in eastern North America having very spiny white cottony foliage and nodding musky crimson flower heads; valuable source of nectar
Broader: thistle: any of numerous plants of the family Compositae and especially of the genera Carduus and Cirsium and Onopordum having prickly-edged leaves | Unrelated: brush: a minor short-term fight
Broader: thistle: any of numerous plants of the family Compositae and especially of the genera Carduus and Cirsium and Onopordum having prickly-edged leaves | Unrelated: flying gurnard: tropical fish with huge fanlike pectoral fins for underwater gliding; unrelated to searobins
Broader: thistle: any of numerous plants of the family Compositae and especially of the genera Carduus and Cirsium and Onopordum having prickly-edged leaves | Unrelated: godliness: piety by virtue of being a godly person
Broader: thistle: any of numerous plants of the family Compositae and especially of the genera Carduus and Cirsium and Onopordum having prickly-edged leaves | Unrelated: dilapidation: the process of becoming dilapidated
Broader: thistle: any of numerous plants of the family Compositae and especially of the genera Carduus and Cirsium and Onopordum having prickly-edged leaves | Unrelated: spherical aberration: an optical aberration resulting in a distorted image
Broader: thistle: any of numerous plants of the family Compositae and especially of the genera Carduus and Cirsium and Onopordum having prickly-edged leaves | Unrelated: breccia: a rudaceous rock consisting of sharp fragments embedded in clay or sand
Broader: thistle: any of numerous plants of the family Compositae and especially of the genera Carduus and Cirsium and Onopordum having prickly-edged leaves | Unrelated: dwarf chinkapin oak: deciduous shrubby tree of northeastern and central United States having a sweet edible nut and often forming dense thickets
Broader: thistle: any of numerous plants of the family Compositae and especially of the genera Carduus and Cirsium and Onopordum having prickly-edged leaves | Unrelated: avarice: extreme greed for material wealth
Broader: thistle: any of numerous plants of the family Compositae and especially of the genera Carduus and Cirsium and Onopordum having prickly-edged leaves | Unrelated: battle flag: a flag that leads troops into battle
Broader: thistle: any of numerous plants of the family Compositae and especially of the genera Carduus and Cirsium and Onopordum having prickly-edged leaves | Unrelated: adam's needle: yucca with long stiff leaves having filamentlike appendages