milk thistle
noun
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Sense 1 noun
any of several Old World coarse prickly-leaved shrubs and subshrubs having milky juice and yellow flowers; widely naturalized; often noxious weeds in cultivated soil
Types & categories
- bush hypernym
- Sonchus oleraceus hyponym
Parts & wholes
- Sonchus member holonym
Sense 2 noun
tall Old World biennial thistle with large clasping white-blotched leaves and purple flower heads; naturalized in California and South America
Types & categories
- herb hypernym
Parts & wholes
- Silybum member holonym
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | member holonym | Parts & wholes | Sonchus |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | bush |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | Sonchus oleraceus |
| 2 | member holonym | Parts & wholes | Silybum |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | herb |