buplever Bot.
(b(j)uːˈplɛvə(r))
[a. F. buplèvre:—L. būpleurum, a. Gr. βούπλευρον, f. βου- ox + πλευρόν rib.]
The plant Hare's-ear or Thorough-wax. ‘An English name adapted from the French, proposed by Bentham’ (Treas. Bot.).
| 1881 G. Allen in Cornh. Mag. June 706 The narrow buplever flowers only at Torquay and in Jersey and Guernsey. Ibid. 716 Torquay..shares a southern buplever with the Channel Islands. |