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kurho.

carline thistle (any plant of the genus Carlina)

5 characters2 syllables approx.Suomi language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈkurho/[ˈkurho̞]
  1. carline thistle (any plant of the genus Carlina)

  2. the genus Carlina

    in-plural
Where this word comes from

Coined by Finnish physician and philologist Elias Lönnrot for Flora Fennica (1860). Possibly based on a dialectal word kurholainen (“thistle”) (attested in 1850), the etymology of which is obscure.

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