bugloss Bot.
(ˈbjuːglɒs)
Forms: 6–7 buglosse, (6 buglose, 8–9 buglos), 7– bugloss.
[a. F. buglosse:—L. būglōssa, ad. Gr. βούγλωσσος, f. βοῦς ox + γλῶσσα tongue, from the shape and roughness of the leaves.]
A name applied to several boraginaceous plants, particularly the small, corn, or field b. (Lycopsis or Anchusa arvensis); viper's b. (Echium vulgare), and other species of Echium; also by some old herbalists to Helminthia echioides, prickly ox-tongue.
| 1533 Elyot Cast. Helth (1541) 11 Cynamome: Saffron..Buglosse: Borage. 1542 Boorde Dyetary xix, The rootes of Borage and Buglosse soden tender..doth ingender good blode. 1605 B. Jonson Volpone iii. iv. 61 A little muske, dri'd mints, Buglosse, and barley-meale. 1699 Evelyn Acetaria 14 What we now call Bugloss, was not that of the Ancients. 1783 Crabbe Village i. Wks. 1834 II. 77 There the blue bugloss paints the sterile soil. 1837 Campbell Dead Eagle, Fields..blue with bugloss. |
b. Comb. bugloss cowslip.
| 1879 Prior Brit. Plant-n., Bugloss-Cowslip, the lungwort, from its having the leaves of a bugloss and the flowers of a primula. Pulmonaria officinalis L. |