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BUGLOSS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Widespread European weed with spiny tongue-shaped leaves and yellow flowers; naturalized in United States
Synonyms:
bitterweed; bristly oxtongue; bugloss; oxtongue; Picris echioides
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("bugloss" is a kind of...):
weed (any plant that crowds out cultivated plants)
Holonyms ("bugloss" is a member of...):
genus Picris; Picris (genus of weedy Old World yellow-flowered herbs usually containing a bitter-tasting substance: bitterweed)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Perennial or biennial herb cultivated for its delicate usually blue flowers
Synonyms:
alkanet; Anchusa officinalis; bugloss
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("bugloss" is a kind of...):
anchusa (any of various Old World herbs of the genus Anchusa having one-sided clusters of trumpet-shaped flowers)
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