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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.

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The channel had become filled with reeds, and great quantities of enormous milk or sow thistle (Sonchus oleraceous).
Australia Twice Traversed / The Romance of Exploration, Being a ...
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A dead squirrel lay among the sow thistle, orbits empty, brown tissue sheathing its bones like a dark, leathery shroud.
Fatal Voyage