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bugloss

/byoo-glos, -glaws/US // ˈbyu glɒs, -glɔs //UK // (ˈbjuːɡlɒs) //

虫草,虫子,窃听器,虫虫

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : any of various Old World, boraginaceous herbs, as Anchusa officinalis, having rough leaves, used in medicine, and Lycopsis arvensis, a bristly, blue-flowered herb.

Examples

  • The bugloss belongs to what may be called beautiful weeds, despite its rough and bristly stalk.

  • The angle of a field by the woods on the eastern side of the heath, the entire corner, is blue in July with viper's bugloss.

  • Like Gerard, he does not question the efficacy of borage, bugloss and many other herbs to promote happiness.

  • It was viper's bugloss—a stray, I told her, shifting my head uneasily beneath her scrutiny.

  • The leaves of the Viper's Bugloss are rough and hairy, with smooth edges.