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ALKANET
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Dictionary entry overview: What does alkanet mean?
• ALKANET (noun)
The noun ALKANET has 1 sense:
1. perennial or biennial herb cultivated for its delicate usually blue flowers
Familiarity information: ALKANET used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Perennial or biennial herb cultivated for its delicate usually blue flowers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
alkanet; Anchusa officinalis; bugloss
Hypernyms ("alkanet" 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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