blessed thistle   (TTS Sound)

The noun blessed thistle has 2 senses

• milk thistle, lady's thistle, Our Lady's mild thistle, holy thistle, blessed thistle, Silybum marianum -- (tall Old World biennial thistle with large clasping white-blotched leaves and purple flower heads; naturalized in California and South America)


• blessed thistle, sweet sultan, Cnicus benedictus -- (annual of Mediterranean to Portugal having hairy stems and minutely spiny-toothed leaves and large heads of yellow flowers)