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Genus of annual or perennial Old World prickly thistles
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carduus
Word definitions for carduus in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Carduus \Carduus\ n. a genus of annual or perennial Old World prickly thistles. Syn: genus Carduus.
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Carduus is a genus of flowering plants in the aster family, Asteraceae , and the tribe Cynareae , the thistles . It is one of two genera considered to be "true thistles", the other being Cirsium . Plants of the genus are known commonly as plumeless thistles ...
Usage examples of carduus.
Arctic bramble, the sloe, goat-weed, Mexican goosefoot, speedwell, wild geranium, veronica, wormwood, juniper, saffron, carduus benedictus, trefoil, wood-sorrel, pepper, mace, scurry grass, plantain, and betony.
But she told him that the goatherd's sickness was caused only by the heat of the sun, and that, such seizures being common in the hot countries whence she came, she had learned from a wise woman how to stay them by a decoction of the carduus benedictus, made in the third night of the waxing moon, but without the aid of magic.