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Taxonomy
24 related topics
Ecology
Pearl-bordered fritillarySmall pearl-bordered fritillaryHigh brown fritillaryDark green fritillaryGoldfinches
14 related topics
Overview
90 related topics
Uses
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Overview
- Flowering plants Flowering plant
- Leaves
- Asteraceae
- Herbivores Herbivore
- Involucre Involucral bract
- Flower heads Flower head
- Pappus Pappus (botany)
- Cirsium heterophyllum
- Cirsium spinosissimum
- Cardueae
- Carduus
- Cirsium
- Onopordum
- Plants outside this tribe Polyphyly
- Floral emblem
- Scotland
- Lorraine
- Encyclopædia Britannica
- King Alexander III Alexander III of Scotland
- Legend
- Norse Norsemen
- Battle of Largs
- Haakon IV
- Norway
- Northern Isles
- Hebrides
- Kingdom of Scotland
- Silver coins Silver coin
- King James III James III of Scotland
- Scottish symbol Scottish symbols
Taxonomy
Ecology
- Pearl-bordered fritillary
- Small pearl-bordered fritillary
- High brown fritillary
- Dark green fritillary
- Goldfinches European goldfinch
- Monarch Danaus (butterfly)
- Skippers Skipper (butterfly)
- Creeping thistle Cirsium arvense
- Weevils Weevil
- Thistle tortoise beetles Thistle tortoise beetle
- Xerces Society
- Danaus plexippus
- Cirsium altissimum
- UK
Uses
- Pliny Pliny the Elder
- Early modern period
- Plague Plague (disease)
- Beira Beira (Portugal)
- Cheese
- Serra da Estrela
- Serra da Estrela Serra da Estrela cheese
- Rennet
- Silibinin
- Monofloral honey
Culture
- Latin
- Burgundy Burgundy (region)
- Chardonnay, Saône-et-Loire
- Chardonnay
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Map overview Semantic statistics
Number of nodes, edges, triples, density and central hubs. Use it to gauge the size and connectivity of the map.Thistle
Nodes148
Edges147
Triples86
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.013514
Components1
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Thistle
Top relations
related to Taxonomy · 24
Thistle → Arctium, Artichoke, Asteraceae, Blessed, BurdockCarduus, CardoonEchinops, Carline, Cotton, Creeping, Distaff, Genera, Globe, Golden, Mary's, Melancholy, Milk, Musk, Oyster, Scots, Sow
related to External links · 17
Thistle → Allen, Charles Grant Blairfindie, Encyclopædia Britannica, Feather, Flint, Flower Fables, Lily-Bell, Louisa May Alcott, November, Pauline Johnson, Popular Science Monthly, Texts, Thistle-down, Thistles, Vol, Wikisource, Wiktionary-logo-en-v2
related to Economic significance · 12
Thistle → Asteraceae, Carduus, Cirsium, Cynara, Many, Onopordum, Silybum, Similarly, Some, The, Thistles, Typical
related to Ecology · 10
Thistle → Another, Cirsium, Control, Eurasia, Hummingbirds, North America, Some, The, Thistles, Trichosirocalus
related to Place names · 9
Thistle → Burgundy, Cardonnacum, Carduus, Chardonnay, French, Late Latin, Latin, Saône-et-Loire, This
related to Cuisine · 5
Thistle → Beira, Estrela, In, Portugal, Serra
is a · 3
Thistle → common name of a group of flowering plants characterised by leaves with sharp spikes on the margins, floral emblem of Scotland and Lorraine, main charge of the regimental badge of the Scots Guards
Important terminology Word statistics
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Important terminology
thistles scotland species cirsium scottish also plants lorraine emblem arms used floral badge carduus onopordum one asteraceae scots native king
Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
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| Thistle | is a | common name of a group of flowering plants characterised by leaves with sharp spikes on the margins | 0.90 | text |
| Thistle | is a | floral emblem of Scotland and Lorraine | 0.90 | text |
| Thistle | is a | main charge of the regimental badge of the Scots Guards | 0.90 | text |
| Tall thistle | instance of | was highlighted as traditionally relying upon taller large-flowered thistle species | 0.80 | text |
| Cirsium altissimum | instance of | was highlighted as traditionally relying upon taller large-flowered thistle species | 0.80 | text |
| for its migration | instance of | was highlighted as traditionally relying upon taller large-flowered thistle species | 0.80 | text |
| silibinin.Other thistles that nominally are weeds are important honey plants | instance of | some species of Silybum that occur as weeds are cultivated for seeds that yield vegetable oil and pharmaceutical compounds | 0.80 | text |
| both as bee fodder in general | instance of | some species of Silybum that occur as weeds are cultivated for seeds that yield vegetable oil and pharmaceutical compounds | 0.80 | text |
| and as sources of luxury monofloral honey products | instance of | some species of Silybum that occur as weeds are cultivated for seeds that yield vegetable oil and pharmaceutical compounds | 0.80 | text |
| Thistle | related to Cuisine | In | 0.60 | section |
| Thistle | related to Cuisine | Beira | 0.60 | section |
| Thistle | related to Cuisine | Portugal | 0.60 | section |
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