milk thistle

English

Silybum marianum

Noun

milk thistle (plural milk thistles)

1. Any of the thistles in the genus Silybum, especially Silybum marianum.
2. Lactuca serriola, prickly lettuce
3. Various plants of genus Sonchus (sow thistles) with milky sap:
   1. Sonchus asper rough milk thistle
   2. Sonchus arvensis field milk thistle
   3. Sonchus oleraceus (common sow thistle)
   4. Sonchus wilmsii

Synonyms

• (Silybum marianum): blessed milk thistle, holy thistle, variegated thistle

Translations

Silybum, Silybum marianum

• Belarusian: растаро́пша f (rastarópša), растаро́пша пля́містая f (rastarópša pljámistaja)
• Bulgarian: бял трън m (bjal trǎn)
• Catalan: card marià m
• Czech: ostropestřec (cs) m, ostropestřec mariánský (cs) m
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: maarianohdake (fi)
• Greek: γαϊδουράγκαθο (el) n (gaïdourágkatho)

  Ancient: σίλλυβον m (síllubon)

• Irish: feochadán Muire m
• Polish: ostropest m, ostropest plamisty m
• Russian: расторо́пша (ru) f (rastorópša), расторо́пша пятни́стая f (rastorópša pjatnístaja)
• Scottish Gaelic: (Silybum marianum) fòghnan-breac m
• Slovak: pestrec m, pestrec mariánsky m, ostropestrec m, ostropestrec mariánsky m
• Slovene: bádəlj, pégasti bádəlj
• Turkish:

  Modern Turkish: deve dikeni (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: بوغا دیكنی (boğa dikeni)

• Ukrainian: росторо́пша f (rostorópša), росторо́пша плями́ста f (rostorópša pljamýsta)
• Welsh: ysgallen Fair f

Lactuca serriola

• Finnish: piikkisalaatti
• Greek: πετρομάρουλο n (petromároulo)
• Russian: лату́к ди́кий m (latúk díkij), молока́н (ru) m (molokán)

Sonchus spp. — see sow thistle