BUGLOSS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bugloss mean? 

• BUGLOSS (noun)
  The noun BUGLOSS has 2 senses:

1. perennial or biennial herb cultivated for its delicate usually blue flowers

2. widespread European weed with spiny tongue-shaped leaves and yellow flowers; naturalized in United States

  Familiarity information: BUGLOSS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BUGLOSS (noun)

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 ("bugloss" is a kind of...):

anchusa (any of various Old World herbs of the genus Anchusa having one-sided clusters of trumpet-shaped flowers)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Widespread European weed with spiny tongue-shaped leaves and yellow flowers; naturalized in United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

bitterweed; bristly oxtongue; bugloss; oxtongue; Picris echioides

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)