What is "thistlelike"

Usage examples of "thistlelike".

Most spectacular of all were giant thistlelike plants strewn, in their season, with psychedelically colored flowers.

Damp weeds were the best because if they were too dry, the delicate leaves and thistlelike balls tended to blow away when touched.

Tangles of grass jerked at his ankles and an occasional thistlelike plant jabbed thorns into his calves.

Looking down, he saw that he had landed on his rear in the middle of a large patch of thistlelike plants with springy, woody stems, thin purple leaves, and spectacularly long and pointed stickers.