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Any of various Old World herbs of the genus Anchusa having one-sided clusters of trumpet-shaped flowers
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anchusa
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See also Anchusa class corvette , a former class of Royal Navy ships The genus Anchusa belongs to the tribe Boragineae of the borage family ( Boraginaceae ). It includes about 40 species . These species grow in Europe, North Africa, South Africa and Western ...
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n. Any plant of the genus ''Anchusa'' (within family Boraginaceae) of rough and hairy Old World herbs with one-sided clusters of trumpet-shaped flowers.
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anchusa \anchusa\ n. 1. any of various Old World herbs of the genus Anchusa having one-sided clusters of trumpet-shaped flowers.
WordNet
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n. any of various Old World herbs of the genus Anchusa having one-sided clusters of trumpet-shaped flowers
Usage examples of anchusa.
Botany had lavished there its most elegant drapery of ferns of all kinds, snap-dragons with their violet mouths and golden pistils, the blue anchusa, the brown lichens, so that the old worn stones seemed mere accessories peeping out at intervals from this fresh growth.
Borage was sometimes called Bugloss by the old herbalists, a name that properly belongs to Anchusa officinalis, the Alkanet, the Small Bugloss being Lycopsis arvensis, and Viper's Bugloss being the popular name for Echium vulgare.