Definitions for Thistle

Thistle this·tle

Spelling: [this-uh l]
IPA: /ˈθɪs əl/

Thistle is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 149 anagrams from letters in Thistle (ehilstt).

Definitions for Thistle

noun

  1. any of various prickly, composite plants having showy, purple flower heads, especially of the genera Cirsium, Carduus, or Onopordum.
  2. any of various other prickly plants.

Origin of Thistle

before 900; Middle English thistel, Old English; cognate with Dutch distel, German Distel, Old Norse thistill

Examples for Thistle

There is hardly a plant which is as nutritious as the thistle.

Bishop noticed the thistle bouquet in a vase over the chronometer.

This is a tall, interesting plant with foliage somewhat like a thistle.

If the last lot were thistle leaves, the next lot may be vine.

Yes, here is the shamrock—the rose, the ever blowing rose—and the thistle.

And this other, either a thistle or not a thistle; but not thistlaceous.

You go off to Harkhurst; they can put you up at the Crown and thistle.

Very soon after, a cow eat up the thistle and swallowed Tom Thumb.

They are connected with the palisading by rose, shamrock and thistle.

"No use smoothing a thistle, Mr. Cregeen," said Jonaique soothingly.

Word Value for Thistle
Scrable

10

Words with friends

10

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