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Bugloss

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 Asperugo procumbens and the Lycopsis arvensis.

Viper's bugloss, a species of Echium.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
bugloss

1530s, from French buglosse, from Latin buglossa, from Greek bouglossos, literally "ox-tongued," from bous "ox" (see cow (n.)) + glossa "tongue" (see gloss (n.2)) . So called from the shape of its leaves.

Wiktionary
bugloss

n. Any of several plants in the borage family, Boraginaceae.

WordNet
bugloss

  1. n. perennial or biennial herb cultivated for its delicate usually blue flowers [syn: alkanet, Anchusa officinalis]

  2. widespread European weed with spiny tongue-shaped leaves and yellow flowers; naturalized in United States [syn: oxtongue, bristly oxtongue, bitterweed, Picris echioides]

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Wikipedia
Bugloss

Bugloss is a name used for several plants in the borage family ( Boraginaceae):

  • Barrelier's bugloss ( Anchusa barrelieri)
  • Bugloss or small bugloss ( Anchusa arvensis)
  • Bugloss fiddleneck ( Amsinckia lycopsoides)
  • Common bugloss ( Anchusa officinalis)
  • Cretan viper's bugloss ( Echium creticum)
  • Dyers' bugloss ( Alcanna tinctoria)
  • Giant viper's bugloss ( Echium pininana)
  • Italian Bugloss ( Anchusa azurea)
  • Purple viper's bugloss ( Echium plantagineum)
  • Siberian bugloss ( Brunnera macrophylla)
  • Mount Teide bugloss ( Echium wildpretii)
  • Viper's bugloss ( Echium vulgare)

Bugloss is part of the name of an insect:

  • The viper's bugloss ( Hadena irregularis), a noctuid moth in the tribe Hadenini, whose caterpillar feeds on viper's bugloss and related plants

Bugloss may also be:

  • Bugloss (French: Buglosse), the 28th day of the month of Floréal in the French Republican calendar
  • Viper and Bugloss, characters created by columnist Peter Simple: see List of Peter Simple's characters

  • , a Flower-class corvette of the British Royal Navy

Usage examples of "bugloss".

Comfrey, and the ordinary Bugloss, abounds in a soft mucilaginous saline juice.

But the local folk put out bits of raw meat into which they had put a quantity of powdered bugloss herb, and that was what made the wolves and foxes blind and addled, to totter helplessly about in broad daylight.

I had long known the stupefying effect of bugloss, and old Wyrd had once told me that ragwort will make a horse go mad, so I used them both, and lavishly.

I had some ragwort and bugloss left over, so, just to make sure that I was giving the Walis-karja no parsimonious dose of those weeds, I mixed them in with the hanaf leaves.

If the bugloss and ragwort worked as warranted, the Walis-karja would probably still be demented and addled all day tomorrow, if not for many more days.

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.

And then one day they get four hlessil wished on them by the Council, and the next evening Bugloss isn't very quick in the uptake for some reason, and suddenly these hlessil play a trick on him and bunk.

Lycopsis arvenis, the Common or Small Bugloss, has small wheel-shaped flowers and wavy toothed leaves, which have also rigid hairs with a bulbous base.