Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of various Eurasian plants of the genus Echium, including the blueweed, having bright blue to white flowers, bristly foliage, and a dense scorpioid inflorescence.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. See Echium.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. a species of Echium.
- n. (Bot.) a rough-leaved biennial herb (Echium vulgare) having showy purplish blue flowers. It is sometimes cultivated, but has become a pestilent weed in fields from New York to Virginia. Also called
blue weed .
WordNet 3.0
- n. a coarse prickly European weed with spikes of blue flowers; naturalized in United States
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Love Across Kingdoms
Appendix of sorts to AIC, listing plants named with reference to animals and vice versa.
duck potato, hog plum, sorrel mare, horse aloe, horse chestnut, banana slug, tiger lily, buffalo grass, tuna fruit, monkey puzzle, bull kelp, hawkweed and 133 more...
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Animal Identity Crisis
Creatures that are described in terms of other animals. Usual rules apply: look at the entries and you'll get the hang of it :-) I could say 'no madeupicals' but, jeeperz, I'd have to put myself on...
squirrel fish, birddog, whale shark, leopard seal, rhinoceros beetle, parrotfish, lion tamarin, bumblebee bat, cow sharks, tiger moth, dogfish, smoothhound shark and 140 more...
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the gardener and apothecary's
bryony, chamomile, frond, sweet bay, laurel, monkshood, henbane, hemlock, parsley, rosemary, thyme, lady's mantle and 140 more...
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biocon L. bū`glossa or būglossos is derived from Gk. boύglōssos (oxtongue), which = 1. a sole (flatfish such as a tonguefish); 2. a cartilaginous fish (shark, ray or skate).
Viper's Bugloss (Echium vulgare) is native to most of Europe, and western and central Asia, and common in North America. It is a biennial or monocarpic perennial herbaceous plant possessing rough, hairy, lanceolate leaves. The flowers, which are initially pink, become caerulean.
Small Bugloss (Archusa arvensis) = a noxious annual herbaceous dicotylenous plant possessing caerulean flowers. Sep 5, 2011
madmouth apparently bugloss derives from the Greek meaning "ox tongue", making this a double candidate for Love Across Kingdoms :D Sep 5, 2011