perennial or biennial herb cultivated for its delicate usually blue flowers
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widespread European weed with spiny tongue-shaped leaves and yellow flowers; naturalized in United States
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Bugloss \Bu"gloss\, n.; pl. {Buglosses}. [F. buglosse, L. buglossa, buglossus, fr. Gr. ? oxtongue ? ox + ? tongue.] (Bot.) A plant of the genus {Anchusa}, and especially the {Anchusa officinalis}, sometimes called {alkanet}; oxtongue.
{Small wild bugloss}, the {Asperugo procumbens} and the {Lycopsis arvensis}.