cardon = s.m. Planta erbacee legumicola din familia compozeelor, cultivata la noi pe suprafete mici pentru petiolul frunzelor si nervatura principala, care sunt comestibile (Cynara cardunculus) - Din fr. chardon
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atractyligénine = nom féminin
Terpčne double dont deux dérivés, trčs toxiques, ont été isolés d'un chardon, Atractylis gummifera. (Ces substances inhibent la production d'ATP par les mitochondries. Des dérivés de l'atractyligénine se trouvent aussi dans les plants de café Coffea arabica et Coffea robusta.)

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this·tle n. = 1. Any of numerous weedy plants, chiefly of the genera Cirsium, Carduus, or Onopordum of the composite family, having prickly leaves and variously colored flower heads surrounded by prickly bracts. 2. Any of various similar or related plants. [Middle English, from Old English thistel.]


Asta este toata botanica pe care am gasit-o, ca mai trageam un pic si chiulu.
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Note added at 2003-01-01 20:30:05 (GMT)
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P.S. 1)Definitia engleza de mai sus este din The American Heritage Dictionary.
2) Nu cred ca \"guma\" are vreo legatura, decit in numele latin \"Atractylis gummifera) din prima definitie.

thistle =
popular name for many spiny and usually weedy plants, but especially applied to members of the family Asteraceae (aster family) that have spiny leaves and often showy heads of purple, rose, white, or yellow flowers followed by thistledown seeds (a favorite food of the goldfinch). The Scotch thistle (variously identified, but most often as Onopordum acanthium, now cultivated as an ornamental) is the badge of the Scottish Order of the Thistle and the national emblem of Scotland. The blessed thistle, or St.-Benedict’s-thistle (Cnicus benedictus, the Carduus benedictus of Shakespeare’s Much Ado about Nothing, iii:4) was at one time a heal-all and is still sometimes used medicinally. The common, or bull, thistle (Cirsium lanceolatum) and the pasture thistle (Cirsium odoratum) are attractive weeds not to be confused with the so-called Canada thistle (Cirsium arvense), naturalized from Europe. A few thistles are cultivated in gardens, e.g., the large-flowered globe thistles, species of the Old World genus Echinops. The Russian thistle is a tumbleweed. Thistle is classified in the division Magnoliophyta, class Magnoliopsida, order Asterales, family Asteraceae.
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