milk thistle vs milkweed

milkweed vs milk thistle

milk thistle and milkweed both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
milk thistle	Yes	No	No	No
milkweed	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, milkweed is a hyponym of milk thistle; that is, milkweed is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than milk thistle:

milk thistle: any of several Old World coarse prickly-leaved shrubs and subshrubs having milky juice and yellow flowers; widely naturalized; often noxious weeds in cultivated soil
milkweed: annual Eurasian sow thistle with soft spiny leaves and rayed yellow flower heads

Other hyponyms of milk thistle include Sonchus oleraceus.

milk thistle (noun)	milkweed (noun)
any of several Old World coarse prickly-leaved shrubs and subshrubs having milky juice and yellow flowers; widely naturalized; often noxious weeds in cultivated soil	any of numerous plants of the genus Asclepias having milky juice and pods that split open releasing seeds with downy tufts
tall Old World biennial thistle with large clasping white-blotched leaves and purple flower heads; naturalized in California and South America	annual Eurasian sow thistle with soft spiny leaves and rayed yellow flower heads

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