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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.
        Genghis: bones of the hills: a novel
        2
        Silymarin, a standardized extract from milk thistle fruits has been found to exhibit anti-cancer effects against various cancers.
        Pubmed
        3
        The first is that he is about as useless as tincture of milk thistle against a New Year hangover.
        The Guardian
        4
        The midwife made charm after charm for the ewes and the goats, the apothecary made infusions of partridgeberry and milk thistle.
        The city in the lake
        5
        Please relax, should you be reading this while mainlining milk thistle ahead of one of the most Herculean drinking nights of the year.
        The Guardian
        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).
        Australia Twice Traversed / The Romance of Exploration, Being a ...
        2
        A dead squirrel lay among the sow thistle, orbits empty, brown tissue sheathing its bones like a dark, leathery shroud.
        Fatal Voyage