Tom replenished the water for his pet goldfinch and made sure there was an adequate supply of thistle seeds and sunflower seeds in the bird's food tray.
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Thistle
//θɪsl̩//
Synonyms for "thistle" (78 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (16)
Strong matches (23)
Related words (39)
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More general
1 entriesderived
67 entriesShowing 16 of 67 words.
etymologically related_to
1 entrieshas context
1 entriesis a
2 entriesrelated to
17 entriesShowing 16 of 17 words.
Translations
80 translations across 60 languages.
Albanian
4 entries- ferreckë noun (plant)
- gjemb gomari noun (plant)
- gjembaç noun (plant)
- rrëfeshk noun (plant)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- βαρακίνη noun (plant)
Arabic
1 entries- شوك noun (plant)
Armenian
3 entries- ուղտափուշ noun (plant)
- տատասկ noun (plant)
- տատասկափուշ noun (plant)
Basque
1 entries- kardu noun (plant)
Belarusian
1 entries- чартапало́х noun (plant)
Bulgarian
1 entries- магарешки бодил noun (plant)
Catalan
1 entries- card noun (plant)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 薊 /蓟 noun (plant)
Cornish
2 entries- askal noun (plant)
- askallen noun (plant)
Czech
1 entries- bodlák noun (plant)
Danish
1 entries- tidsel noun (plant)
Dutch
1 entries- distel noun (plant)
Esperanto
1 entries- kardo noun (plant)
Estonian
2 entries- ohakas noun (plant)
- takjas noun (plant)
Finnish
2 entries- ohdake noun (plant)
- takiainen noun (plant)
French
1 entries- chardon noun (plant)
Galician
4 entries- arzola noun (plant)
- cardio noun (plant)
- cardo noun (plant)
- melardo noun (plant)
German
1 entries- Distel noun (plant)
Greek
1 entries- γαϊδουράγκαθο noun (plant)
Hebrew
1 entries- קוֹץ noun (plant)
Hungarian
1 entries- bogáncs noun (plant)
Ido
1 entries- kardono noun (plant)
Ingrian
1 entries- ohtajain noun (plant)
Irish
2 entries- cluarán noun (plant)
- feochadán noun (plant)
Italian
1 entries- cardo noun (plant)
Japanese
2 entries- アザミ noun (plant)
- 薊 noun (plant)
Korean
1 entries- 엉겅퀴 noun (plant)
Latgalian
1 entries- usne noun (plant)
Latin
1 entries- carduus noun (plant)
Latvian
1 entries- usne noun (plant)
Lithuanian
1 entries- usnis noun (plant)
Lower Sorbian
2 entries- badak noun (plant)
- wóset noun (plant)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- Dëschtel noun (plant)
Manx
1 entries- onnane noun (plant)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- tistel noun (plant)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- tistel noun (plant)
Old Church Slavonic
1 entries- влъчьць noun (plant)
Pennsylvania German
1 entries- Dischdel noun (plant)
Persian
1 entries- کنگر noun (plant)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Distel noun (plant)
Polish
2 entries- bodiak noun (plant)
- oset noun (plant)
Portuguese
1 entries- cardo noun (plant)
Romanian
2 entries- ciulin noun (plant)
- scaiete noun (plant)
Russian
1 entries- чертополо́х noun (plant)
Scots
1 entries- thrissel noun (plant)
Scottish Gaelic
2 entries- cluaran noun (plant)
- fòghnan noun (plant)
Sicilian
2 entries- cardu noun (plant)
- carduni noun (plant)
Slovak
1 entries- bodliak noun (plant)
Spanish
1 entries- cardo noun (plant)
Swedish
1 entries- tistel noun (plant)
Tagalog
1 entries- pamingkit noun (plant)
Turkish
1 entries- devedikeni noun (plant)
Ukrainian
2 entries- осо́т noun (plant)
- чортополо́х noun (plant)
Vilamovian
1 entries- döstuł noun (plant)
Walloon
1 entries- tcherdon noun (plant)
Welsh
1 entries- ysgall noun (plant)
Woiwurrung
1 entries- brugl-brugl noun (plant)
Xhosa
1 entries- ikhakhakhaka noun (plant)
Yurok
1 entries- munipɹni noun (plant)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
There's no plant more prickly than a thistle.
Source: tatoeba (5712826)
I don't believe a rose would be as nice if it was called a thistle or a skunk cabbage.
Source: tatoeba (5825123)
He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle, And away they all flew like the down on a thistle.
Source: tatoeba (6399691)
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