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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. widely cultivated southern European acanthus with whitish purple-veined flowers;
[syn: bear's breech, bear's breeches, sea holly, Acanthus mollis]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Bear's-breech \Bear's"-breech`\, bear's-breeches \bear's"-breech`es\, n. 1. (Bot.) The English cow parsnip (Heracleum sphondylium) --Dr. Prior. [1913 Webster] 2. a widely cultivated southern European acanthus (Acanthus mollis) with whitish purple-veined flowers. See Acanthus, n., 1. Syn: bear's breech, bear's-breech, bear's breeches, sea holly. [WordNet 1.5]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Acanthus mollis n 1: widely cultivated southern European acanthus with whitish purple-veined flowers [syn: bear's breech, bear's breeches, sea holly, Acanthus mollis]