Dye-yielding plant

• Plant yielding a red dye
• Perennial or biennial herb cultivated for its delicate usually blue flowers
• Flower an officer’s put around Hollywood citizen
• Red dye, or plant called bugloss

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. perennial or biennial herb cultivated for its delicate usually blue flowers [syn: bugloss , Anchusa officinalis ]

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Alkanet is the common name of several related plants in the borage family ( Boraginaceae ): Alkanet, Alkanna tinctoria , the source of a red dye; this is the plant most commonly called simply "alkanet" Various other plants of the Alkanna genus may be informally ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (taxlink Alkanna tinctoria species noshow=1), a plant whose root is used as a red dye. 2 The dyeing matter extracted from the plant, giving a deep red colour. 3 Other plants of the (taxlink Alkanna genus noshow=1) genus. 4 (taxlink Anchusa officinalis ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"dye material from bugloss plant roots," early 14c., from Spanish alcaneta , diminutive of alcana , from Arabic al-hinna (see henna ). As the name of the plant itself, from 1560s.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bugloss \Bu"gloss\, n.; pl. Buglosses . [F. buglosse, L. buglossa, buglossus, fr. Gr. ? oxtongue ? ox + ? tongue.] (Bot.) A plant of the genus Anchusa , and especially the Anchusa officinalis , sometimes called alkanet ; oxtongue. Small wild bugloss , the ...