Sentence examples for russian thistle from inspiring English sources
noun
A prickly shrublike annual, (often erroneously referred to as , a synonym for Kali turgida), which is the best-known kind of tumbleweed.
And, of course, there's fall, with pollen from ragweed, sage and Russian thistle the common culprits.
Tumbleweed, the great symbol of the American West, clogging roadways and piling up in the most bizarre ways, is actually Russian thistle.
Here, people are referring to the Russian thistle, a fast-growing plant that more than a century ago hitchhiked into the country and found the American prairie an unusually accommodating place.
"Russian thistle is spreading," he wrote, "and maybe one dust-blown evening, the drinkers in Dagenham saloons will look out into the main street to see the tumbleweeds rolling past their reined-up Cortinas".
We descend into the coulee, boots crunching on dry Russian thistle.
Three tumbleweed species; Russian thistle (Salsola kali), Jim Hill mustard (Sisymbrium altissimum) and summer cypress (Kochia scoparia) blow in, and out of, two plastic-lined radioactive wastewater ponds, constructed in 1993 on the US Department of Energy's Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory in southeast Idaho.
The score is just about the most famous ballet music ever written, but most of the dances here (apart from the high-kicking thistles in the Russian Dance) have no footwork and no steps.
yellow star thistle, St. Barnaby's thistle, Russian napweed.
Norwich 0 Fulham 0 Chelsea recorded first profit since Russian took over in 2003 Ross County 3 Inverness Caledonian Thistle 3 Luxembourg 1 Scotland 2 Manchester United's Group H opponents CFR Cluj and Galatasaray made it a good night for the Premier League club, as Burak Yilmaz's late goal gave the Turkish side a 1-1 draw.
BROWN--Aurelia "Thistle" Clifton.
