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Meanings of sow thistle in English
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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Examples for "milk thistle"
Examples for "milk thistle"
1
For his liver, silymarin, the milk thistle, will suit us well.
2
Silymarin, a standardized extract from milk thistle fruits has been found to exhibit anti-cancer effects against various cancers.
3
The first is that he is about as useless as tincture of milk thistle against a New Year hangover.
4
The midwife made charm after charm for the ewes and the goats, the apothecary made infusions of partridgeberry and milk thistle.
5
Please relax, should you be reading this while mainlining milk thistle ahead of one of the most Herculean drinking nights of the year.
Usage of sow thistle in English
1
The channel had become filled with reeds, and great quantities of enormous milk or sow thistle (Sonchus oleraceous).
2
A dead squirrel lay among the sow thistle, orbits empty, brown tissue sheathing its bones like a dark, leathery shroud.