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Torch-thistle. World English Historical Dictionary

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Torch-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. 1916, rev. 2022. Torch-thistle A name for a columnar cactus of the genus Cereus.

1 1731–3.  Miller, Gard. Dict., s.v. Cereus, The Torch-Thistle. Call’d Cereus, because it is, as it were, a kind of taper or torch … because when these plants have been cut down and dry’d upon the ground, they dip them into oil, and burn them as torches. Ibid., s.v. Greenhouse, Euphorbiums, Torch-Thistles, and other tender succulent Plants.

2 1753.  Hogarth, Anal. Beauty, viii. 44. The indian-fig or torch-thistle,… as well as all that tribe of uncouth shaped exotics.

3 1884.  Miller, Plant-n., 177. Cereus, Torch-thistle.

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