anchusa

/ang-kyoo-suh, -zuh, an-choo-/US // æŋˈkyu sə, -zə, ænˈtʃu- //UK // (æŋˈkjuːsə) //

锚草,鳀鱼,锚固剂,锚地

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : any plant of the genus Anchusa, of the borage family, several species of which are cultivated for their blue or purplish flowers that resemble forget-me-nots.

The two British Alkanets (Anchusa) are interesting plants, though not very common.
That when French ladies coloured their faces with an ointment containing anchusa the colour did not last long.
My garden is at present amazingly blue with Dropmore Alkanet (Anchusa).
She gazed at the bushes of blue anchusa; the gardener had planted pink monthly roses a little too thickly among them.
In this specimen a raceme of small flowers was included within the enlarged pericarp of a species of Anchusa.