bugloss Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun perennial or biennial herb cultivated for its delicate usually blue flowers
    Anchusa officinalis; alkanet.
  2. noun widespread European weed with spiny tongue-shaped leaves and yellow flowers; naturalized in United States
    oxtongue; bitterweed; Picris echioides; bristly oxtongue.

WordNet

Bu"gloss noun
Etymology
F. buglosse, L. buglossa, buglossus, fr. Gr. oxtongue ox + tongue.
Wordforms
plural Buglosses
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) A plant of the genus Anchusa, and especially the A. officinalis, sometimes called alkanet; oxtongue.

Webster 1913