prickly herbaceous plant, Old English tistel, from Proto-Germanic *thistilaz (cognates: Old Saxon thistil, Old High German distil, German Distel, Old Norse tistell, Danish tidsel), of uncertain origin; perhaps from an extended form of PIE root *steig- "to prick, stick, pierce." Emblematic of Scotland since 15c.
例文
1. She sifted thistles through her thistle -sifter.
彼女はアザミを篩いにかけた。
2.Bees moved,humming thoughtfully,from scarlet poppy to purple thistle .
ミツバチは真っ赤なケシの花と鮮やかな紫のアザミの草花の間を羽ばたいてブンブンと低く吟じた。
3.Alice ran round the thistle again.
アリスはまたそのアザミの周りを走った。
4.Eurasian thistle growing in sand dunes and dry chalky soils.
砂丘や乾燥チョーク土壌に成長するユーラシアアザミ。
5.Ming Hyobuyou shi lang, thistle Liaoning Governor Germany have troops there forever.