Bugloss

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Any of several usually hairy Old World plants, especially in the genera Anchusa, Brunnera, and Echium, having blue or violet flowers.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Any of several plants in the borage family, Boraginaceae.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A plant of the genus Anchusa, and especially the Anchusa officinalis, sometimes called alkanet; oxtongue.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The popular name of the plant Anchusa officinalis.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. widespread European weed with spiny tongue-shaped leaves and yellow flowers; naturalized in United States
  • n. perennial or biennial herb cultivated for its delicate usually blue flowers
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    weed    anchusa   
    Cross Reference
    Variant
    alkanet   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    oxtongue   
    Same Context
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