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Hound's-tongue

Hound's-tongue \Hound's"-tongue`\, n. [AS. hundes tunge.] (Bot.) A biennial weed ( Cynoglossum officinale), with soft tongue-shaped leaves, and an offensive odor. It bears nutlets covered with barbed or hooked prickles. Called also dog's-tongue.

Wiktionary
hound's-tongue

n. (alternative form of hound's tongue English)

WordNet
hound's-tongue

  1. n. perennial shrub of North America having coarse tongue-shaped leaves and pale-blue to purple flowers [syn: Cynoglossum virginaticum]

  2. biennial shrub of Europe and western Asia having coarse tongue-shaped leaves and dark reddish-purple flowers [syn: Cynoglossum officinale]

Usage examples of "hound's-tongue".

Shin-high autumn grass waved green-gold in the afternoon light, starred with late wildflowers, tall orange-yellow butter-and-egg plants, red-purple deer grass and hound's-tongue.