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Vocabulary
Thistledown?
Hi guys!
Can somebody explain me the right meaning of "thistledown" in the english language? I found it in a book description.
example sentences:
"Inside the deep recesses of the stone lies Thistledown: the remnants of a human society, versed in English, Russian and Chinese"
"But, unlike Thistledown, the Way is not entirely dead, and the inhabitants hold the knowledge of a present war, over a million miles away, using weapons far more deadly than any that mankind has ever conceived."
thanks a lot
Can somebody explain me the right meaning of "thistledown" in the english language? I found it in a book description.
example sentences:
"Inside the deep recesses of the stone lies Thistledown: the remnants of a human society, versed in English, Russian and Chinese"
"But, unlike Thistledown, the Way is not entirely dead, and the inhabitants hold the knowledge of a present war, over a million miles away, using weapons far more deadly than any that mankind has ever conceived."
thanks a lot
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In your quotes, the word is capitalized; it is a proper noun, the name of an imaginary place, I suppose. It is probably unrelated to real thistledown , which is the ripened, winged seeds of the thistle, a garden weed; the seeds form as they do on dandelions, on tiny pale parachutes, and blow away in the wind.
- In your quotes, the word is capitalized; it is a proper noun, the name of an imaginary place, I suppose.
- It is probably unrelated to real thistledown , which is the ripened, winged seeds of the thistle, a garden weed; the seeds form as they do on dandelions, on tiny pale parachutes, and blow away in the wind.
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In your quotes, the word is capitalized; it is a proper noun, the name of an imaginary place, I suppose. It is probably unrelated to real thistledown, which is the ripened, winged seeds of the thistle, a garden weed; the seeds form as they do on dandelions, on tiny pale parachutes, and blow away in the wind.
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