thistle

Adidas' iconic three stripes feature along the shoulders and down the sleeves and a purple and green thistle motif, symbolising Scotland's national flower, is on the reverse collar.

From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2026

And since each sphere, though itself dead, seldom carries fewer than 150,000 fertile seeds, and sometimes as many as a quarter of a million, every tumbler leaves a vast wake of potential Russian thistle plants.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 2025

Researchers from the University of Cologne have found a new use for Cnicin, a substance produced in blessed thistle.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 19, 2024

Like many weeds, the thistle does really well in areas where the soil has been disturbed, says Erica Fleishman, an Oregon State University professor and director of the Oregon Climate Research Institute.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 5, 2024

Clumps of thistle and slight ground hummocks would be his only cover.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

Most thistles are weeds that are extremely prickly but have beautiful flowers.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 22, 2023

Modern cheesemakers in countries other than France often use other sources of rennet, such as microbial rennet derived from fungi or vegetal rennet from thistles, to coagulate their cheeses.

From Salon ● Feb. 20, 2023

Previously, there’s been Colorado lamb and, at another point, artichoke thistles on the menu — flown in from Santa Barbara and baked in gratin and white truffle.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2022

"He had to use chemicals, because if you got too many dock leaves or thistles, they could take money away from you. Paraquat was the pesticide all the farmers used."

From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2022

Add which had not been carefully mowed, the string became wound round thistles or tufts of gram, thus checking the hawk and doing damage to its training.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White