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Bugloss
Anchusa arvensis)
Bugloss fiddleneck (Amsinckia lycopsoides)
Common bugloss (Anchusa officinalis)
Cretan viper's bugloss (Echium creticum)
Dyers' bugloss (Alcanna
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Aurora Cannabis
Aurora acquired a stake in Alcanna Inc. (parent company of Nova Cannabis retail stores) in 2018, at one point owning 25% of the company.
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kennah
kennah obs. var. henna; cf. alcanna.1731 J. Pitts Acc. Mahometans 163 The Women here commonly paint their Hands and Feet with a certain Plant call'd Kennah, dried and beaten to Powder.
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arcanne
† arˈcanna, arˈcanne Obs. [a. F. arcanne ‘rudle, red chaulke, red oaker,’ Cotgr., prob. ad. *arcanna, variant of It. alcanna or Sp. alcana: see alcanna, alkanet.] A kind of red chalk used by carpenters for marking timber.1753 Chambers Cycl. Supp. 1880 Syd. Soc. Lex., Arcanne, a synonym of red ochre.
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List of English words of Arabic origin (G–J)
made from the roots of Alkanna tinctoria and this word is 14th-century English, with a Romance-language diminutive suffix '-et', from medieval Latin alcanna
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alcana
‖ alˈcanna, alˈcana Bot. [a. Sp. alcana, alcaña, a. Arab. al-hennā, name of the shrub. See also henna and alkanet.] The oriental shrub, Egyptian Privet (Lawsonia inermis, family Lythraceæ), or its leaves and young shoots, used by eastern nations to dye parts of the body reddish orange; henna.1625 Ha...
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alkanet
alkanet (ˈælkənɛt) [? ad. Sp. alcaneta (also arcaneta), dim. of alcana, alcaña: see alcanna. The diminutive form was applied to a European plant yielding red dye, the Anchusa or Alkanna tinctoria, (formerly sometimes called Alkanna spuria) to distinguish it from the oriental Al-kanna = henna. Hence ...
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henna
henna (ˈhɛnə) Also 7 hena, hanna, hina, 8–9 hinna(h, 9 hennah. [a. Arab. ḥennāﻋ. See also alcanna.] a. The Egyptian Privet, Lawsonia inermis (N.O. Lythraceæ); the shoots and leaves of this plant used, esp. by eastern nations, as a dye for parts of the body, or made into a cosmetic with catechu.1600...
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cheese
▪ I. cheese, n.1 (tʃiːz) Forms: 1 cese, cyse, 2 cease, cæse, 5 schese, 6 chease, cheise, chiese, ches, 2–6 chese, 4, 6– cheese. [OE. (Anglian) cése, (WSax.) *c{iacu}ese, c{yacu}se (with i- umlaut from céasi, cǽsi) = OHG. châsi (MHG. kæse, Ger. käse), OLG. kâsi, kêsi (MDu. kâse, Du. kaas):—WGer. *kâs...
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