Associations to the word «Cirsium»

Wiktionary

CIRSIUM, proper noun. A taxonomic genus within the family Asteraceae   — many thistles.
CIRSIUM ARVENSE, proper noun. A taxonomic species within the family Asteraceae   — the creeping thistle or Canada thistle, native to Europe and northern Asia.

Dictionary definition

CIRSIUM, noun. Plume thistles.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope