thistleball

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noun

A spherical thistle.

Scrabble 16
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Meanings

nounthistleball (countable and uncountable, plural thistleballs)

plural thistleballs

  1. countableA spherical thistle.
  2. nonce worduncountableThistledown.

    We dance in heys around the hall, / Weightless as thistleball

    1922, Thomas Hardy, “The Dream is—Which?”, in Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses, London: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC

Origin

From thistle + ball.

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APA

thistleball. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/thistleball

MLA

“thistleball.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/thistleball. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “thistleball,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/thistleball.

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