Obs. [a. ONF. cardon = central F. chardon thistle = Pr. cardó, It. cardone, augm. of Romanic cardo:—L. cardus, carduus thistle: cf. CARDOON.] A thistle.

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c. 1425.  Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 645. Cardo, cardoun.

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