carduus.
thistle; prickly bur/seed-vessel; cardoon (artichoke-like vegetable);
Meaning & usage
a wild thistle
the artichoke
Where this word comes from
Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *kers- (“to scratch, scrape, rub, card”), cognate with Middle Low German harsch (“hairy”), Russian короста (korosta, “scab”), Old Church Slavonic краста (krasta), Lithuanian karsiu (“to comb”). This root may itself be a metathesis of *kes-r-, *kser- (cf. *ksen-), from *kes-.
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