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bugloss

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bu=gloss

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun bugloss has 2 senses

bugloss(n = noun.plant) alkanet, anchusa officinalis - perennial or biennial herb cultivated for its delicate usually blue flowers; Array

is a kind of anchusa

bugloss(n = noun.plant) bitterweed, bristly oxtongue, oxtongue, picris echioides - widespread European weed with spiny tongue-shaped leaves and yellow flowers; naturalized in United States; Array

is a member of genus picris, picris

is a kind of weed

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CIDE DICTIONARY

bugloss, n. [F. buglosse, L. buglossa, buglossus, fr. Gr. oxtongue ox + tongue.].

A plant of the genus Anchusa, and especially the Anchusa officinalis, sometimes called alkanet; oxtongue. [1913 Webster]

Small wild bugloss, the Asperugo procumbens and the Lycopsis arvensis. -- Viper's bugloss, a species of Echium.

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

bugloss, n.
1 any of various bristly plants related to borage, esp. of the genus Anchusa with bright blue tubular flowers.
2 = viper's bugloss (see VIPER).

Etymology

F buglosse or L buglossus f. Gk bouglossos ox-tongued

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