Sow thistle: 1 definition
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Biology (plants and animals)
Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)Sow thistle in English is the name of a plant defined with Emilia sonchifolia in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Crassocephalum sonchifolium Lessing (among others).
Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):
· Niger flora, or ‘An enumeration of the plants of western tropical Africa’. (1849)
· Revue de Cytologie et de Biologie Végétales, le Botaniste (1987)
· Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis (DC.) (1838)
· Journal of the West African Science Association (1973)
· Fl. Madag. (1963)
· Plant Systematics and Evolution (1990)
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See also (Relevant definitions)
Partial matches: Thistle, Sow.
Ends with: Prickly leaved sow thistle, Purple sow thistle, Smooth leaves sow thistle, Smooth sow thistle.
Full-text: Smooth sow thistle, Smooth leaves sow thistle, False sow-thistle, Purple sow thistle, Prickly leaved sow thistle.
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