white thistle
1. any plant of the genus Argemone having large white or yellow flowers and prickly leaves and stems and pods; chiefly of tropical America • Syn: prickly poppy, argemone, devil's fig • Hypernyms: herb, herbaceous plant • Hyponyms: Mexican poppy, Argemone mexicana • Member Holonyms: genus Argemone 2. spiny shrub with silvery-scurfy foliage of alkaline plains of southwestern United States and Mexico • Syn: quail bush, quail brush, Atriplex lentiformis • Hypernyms: saltbush
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