stemless carline thistle
- noun
- UK
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cardo sin tallo
- Hikers admire the beautiful stemless carline thistle for its striking, spiny leaves and large, silver flower heads.
Examples
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The fields in the Alps are dotted with the distinctive stemless carline thistle, lying close to the ground.
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I saw a stemless carline thistle while hiking in the Alps.
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Botanists often study the stemless carline thistle as an adaptation to harsh mountain climates.
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The stemless carline thistle blooms in the summer.
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Hikers admire the beautiful stemless carline thistle for its striking, spiny leaves and large, silver flower heads.
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Botanists often study the stemless carline thistle as an adaptation to harsh mountain climates.
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The fields in the Alps are dotted with the distinctive stemless carline thistle, lying close to the ground.
Synonyms
A low, stemless plant with large silvery or purple flowers and spiny hairy leaves that grows in mountain meadows
A spiky European plant with a large silver flower head
A spiky plant like a thistle that has a large decorative flowerhead
A Mediterranean plant with spiny leaves and large daisy-like flower heads
Surface Forms
Morphology
Each constituent contributes a clear, predictable meaning: 'stemless' = without a stem, 'carline' = a spiny flowering plant, and 'thistle' = a spiny plant. The compound simply denotes a carline-type thistle that lacks a stem, a compositional pattern common in botanical naming and therefore readily inferable by a learner who knows the parts.
Etymology
Stemless carline thistle is a simple picture name: stemless shows the flower sits close to the ground, carline is the plant name, and thistle means it has sharp, spiny leaves. So the name tells you it is a low, spiny mountain flower and helps you imagine it lying near the ground.
