Thistledown

Thistledown

Thistledown is:

* The soft feathery material which protects the fruiting part of a thistle.
* One of the servers in which the Massively Multi-player Online Role Playing Game Asheron's Call takes place, with characters you create, set in the fictional land of Dereth.
* The name the giant extrasolar asteroid/starship which serves as a venue for some of the action in science fiction author Greg Bear's EON series ("Eon", "Eternity", "Legacy").
* The name of a fairie, a character in the book "Flower Fables" written by Louisa May Alcott.
* Thistledown (racecourse), a thoroughbred racing track in North Randall, Ohio, near Cleveland.


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  • thistledown — noun Date: 1561 the typically plumose pappus from the ripe flower head of a thistle …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • thistledown — /this euhl down /, n. the mature, silky pappus of a thistle. [1555 65; THISTLE + DOWN2] * * * …   Universalium

  • thistledown — noun The soft, feathery pappus attached to the seeds of a thistle …   Wiktionary

  • thistledown — this|tle|down [ˈθısəldaun] n [U] the soft feathery substance fastened to thistle seeds that helps them to float in the air …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • thistledown — this|tle|down [ θısl,daun ] noun uncount the light soft white substance on thistle seeds …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

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