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Any of the flowering plants in the genus Echinops, with spiny foliage and blue or white spherical flower heads.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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any of various plants of the genus Echinops having prickly leaves and dense globose heads of bluish flowers
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: herb, herbaceous plant
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Across languages
Translations
19 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Arabic:
شَوْك الْجَمَل
(šawk al-jamal)
— any of the flowering plants in the genus Echinops, with spiny foliage and blue or white spherical flower heads
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Arabic:
شَوْك الْصَحْرَاء
(šawk al-ṣaḥrāʔ)
— any of the flowering plants in the genus Echinops, with spiny foliage and blue or white spherical flower heads
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Azerbaijani:
топпузтикан
— any of the flowering plants in the genus Echinops, with spiny foliage and blue or white spherical flower heads
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Azerbaijani:
toppuztikan
— any of the flowering plants in the genus Echinops, with spiny foliage and blue or white spherical flower heads
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Bulgarian:
челядник
(čeljadnik)
— any of the flowering plants in the genus Echinops, with spiny foliage and blue or white spherical flower heads
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Finnish:
pallo-ohdake
— any of the flowering plants in the genus Echinops, with spiny foliage and blue or white spherical flower heads
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French:
échinope
— any of the flowering plants in the genus Echinops, with spiny foliage and blue or white spherical flower heads
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German:
Kugeldistel
— any of the flowering plants in the genus Echinops, with spiny foliage and blue or white spherical flower heads
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Kazakh:
лақса
(laqsa)
— any of the flowering plants in the genus Echinops, with spiny foliage and blue or white spherical flower heads
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Russian:
мордо́вник
(mordóvnik)
— any of the flowering plants in the genus Echinops, with spiny foliage and blue or white spherical flower heads
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Serbo-Croatian:
glàvoč
— any of the flowering plants in the genus Echinops, with spiny foliage and blue or white spherical flower heads
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Serbo-Croatian:
sȉkavac
— any of the flowering plants in the genus Echinops, with spiny foliage and blue or white spherical flower heads
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Serbo-Croatian:
sȉkavica
— any of the flowering plants in the genus Echinops, with spiny foliage and blue or white spherical flower heads
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Swedish:
bolltistel
— any of the flowering plants in the genus Echinops, with spiny foliage and blue or white spherical flower heads
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Turkish:
kirpi dikeni
— any of the flowering plants in the genus Echinops, with spiny foliage and blue or white spherical flower heads
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Turkish:
mavi dünya
— any of the flowering plants in the genus Echinops, with spiny foliage and blue or white spherical flower heads
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Turkish:
mavi dünya dikeni
— any of the flowering plants in the genus Echinops, with spiny foliage and blue or white spherical flower heads
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Uzbek:
оққундуз
(oqqunduz)
— any of the flowering plants in the genus Echinops, with spiny foliage and blue or white spherical flower heads
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Uzbek:
oqqunduz
— any of the flowering plants in the genus Echinops, with spiny foliage and blue or white spherical flower heads
