melancholy thistle

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1. perennial stoloniferous thistle of northern Europe with lanceolate basal leaves and usually solitary heads of reddish-purple flowers (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	thistle,
definition	:	any of numerous plants of the family Compositae and especially of the genera Carduus and Cirsium and Onopordum having prickly-edged leaves (noun.plant)