sow thistle

See also: sowthistle and sow-thistle

English

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: Printed by 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.

thistle

Arabic: تِفَاف m (tifāf), جَعْضِيض m (jaʕḍīḍ) (both Sonchus)
Armenian: կաթնբեկ (hy) (kat‘nbek), 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)
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: σόγχος m (sónkhos)
Irish: bainne muice m, bleachtán m, bleachtfheochadán m, slóchtán m
Maori: 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
Swedish: torta (sv), tolta (Cicerbita alpina)
Ukrainian: осо́т m (osót)

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