bugloss

English

Purple viper’s bugloss, Echium plantagineum.

Etymology

From French buglosse, from Latin buglossa, buglossus, from Ancient Greek βούγλωσσον (boúglōsson, “Anchusa italica”), from βοῦς (boûs, “ox”) + γλῶσσα (glôssa, “tongue”).

Noun

bugloss (usually uncountable, plural buglosses)

1. Any of several plants in the borage family, Boraginaceae.

Synonyms

• oxtongue

Derived terms

• viper's bugloss

 

Translations

any of several plants in the borage family

• Arabic: كَحْلَاء f (kaḥlāʔ), شِنْجَار m (šinjār), خَسّ الْحِمَار m (ḵass al-ḥimār)
• Bulgarian: паче гнездо (pače gnezdo)
• Dacian: budathla
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: rasti (fi)
• German: (none, use more specific designations for particular genera)
• Greek:

  Ancient: βούγλωσσον n (boúglōsson)

• Hungarian: kígyószisz (hu)
• Latin: būglōssa f, longaevum n
• Middle English: oxtonge
• Norman: p'tite g'linne f
• Portuguese: buglossa (pt) f
• Swedish: strävbladig växt c

See also

• bugloss on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Boraginaceae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies