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Noun
sow thistle (countable and uncountable, plural sow thistles)
- Any of the thistles in one of the genera Cicerbita and Sonchus.
1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, 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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thistle
- Arabic: تِفَاف m (tifāf), جَعْضِيض m (jaʕḍīḍ) (both Sonchus)
- Armenian: կաթնբեկ (hy) (katʻnbek), իշամառոլ (išamaṙol)
- Basque: kardabera
- Bulgarian: кострец m (kostrec)
- Catalan: lletsó m
- Chinese:
- Hokkien: 荼 (tô͘)
- Mandarin: 荼 (zh) (tú)
- Danish: svinemælk c (Sonchus), svinetidsel c (Sonchus, archaic), svinedild c (Sonchus, archaic), turt (Cicerbita alpina)
- Dutch: melkdistel (nl) m
- Finnish: valvatti (fi) (Sonchus); sinivalvatti (Cicerbita)
- French: laiteron (fr) m
- Georgian: ღიჭა (ɣič̣a)
- German: Gänsedistel f (Sonchus), Saudistel f (Sonchus), Milchlattich m (Cicerbita)
- Greek: ζοχός (el) m (zochós)
- Ancient Greek: σόγχος m (sónkhos)
- Irish: bainne muice m, bleachtán m, bleachtfheochadán m, slóchtán m
- Italian: crespigno m, sonco m
- Māori: pūwhā, pūhā, rauriki, raurōroa
- Mingrelian: ბურცხალე (burcxale), გინიში ჯონჯღო (giniši ǯonǯɣo), გინიშ ჯღონჯღო (giniš ǯɣonǯɣo)
- Norwegian: turt, tort (no), turta, torta (no) (Cicerbita alpina)
- Plautdietsch: Säajenkool m
- Polish: mlecz (pl) m
- Russian: осо́т (ru) m (osót)
- Scottish Gaelic: cluaran-cruaidh m
- Spanish: cerraja (es)
- Swedish: torta (sv), tolta (Cicerbita alpina)
- Turkish: eşek marulu (tr), kuzugevreği
- Ukrainian: осо́т m (osót)
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