What is "oxtongue"

oxtongue \ox"tongue`\, ox-tongue \ox"-tongue`\, n. (Bot.) A widespread European weed ( Picris echioides formerly Helminthia echioides) with spiny tongue-shaped leaves and yellow flowers. The name is applied to several plants, from the shape and roughness of their leaves; as, Anchusa officinalis, a kind of bugloss, and Helminthia echioides, both European herbs. It has been naturalized in the U. S.

Syn: bristly oxtongue, prickly oxtongue, bitterweed, bugloss.

n. 1 beef tongue (a foodstuff). 2 A flowering plant of the genus (taxlink Picris genus noshow=1), especially (taxlink Picris echioides species noshow=1), the (vern: bristly oxtongue).

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