bugloss : Idioms & Phrases


Small wild bugloss

  • the Asperugo procumbens and the Lycopsis arvensis.
Webster 1913

Viper's bugloss

  • noun a coarse prickly European weed with spikes of blue flowers; naturalized in United States
    blue thistle; blue devil; Echium vulgare; blueweed.
WordNet
  • a species of Echium.
  • (Bot.), a rough-leaved biennial herb (Echium vulgare) having showy purplish blue flowers. It is sometimes cultivated, but has become a pestilent weed in fields from New York to Virginia. Also called blue weed.
Webster 1913

Wild bugloss

  • (Bot.), an annual rough-leaved plant (Lycopsis arvensis) with small blue flowers.
Webster 1913