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Cotton-thistle. World English Historical Dictionary

Cotton-thistle. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1893, rev. 2025. Cotton-thistle A tall species of thistle, Onopordum Acanthium, entirely covered with white cottony down.

1 1548.  Turner, Names of Herbes, Acanthium … maye be called in englishe otethistle … or gum thistle, or cotton thistle, because it is gummy and the leaues haue in them a thynge lyke cotten.

2 1611.  Cotgr., s.v. Argentin, Chardon argentin, Argentine, Siluer-thistle … Cotton-Thistle, the wilde white Thistle.

3 1854.  S. Thomson, Wild Fl., III. (ed. 2), 245. The … cotton-thistle (Onopordum acanthium), white with its woolly covering, is known to most.

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