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Noun: bugloss  'byoo,glós
  1. Perennial or biennial herb cultivated for its delicate usually blue flowers
    - alkanet, Anchusa officinalis
     
  2. Widespread European weed with spiny tongue-shaped leaves and yellow flowers; naturalized in United States
    - oxtongue, bristly oxtongue, bitterweed, Picris echioides

Derived forms: buglosses

Type of: anchusa, weed

Part of: genus Picris, Picris

Encyclopedia: Bugloss