Definitions for bugloss

bugloss bu·gloss

Spelling: [byoo-glos, -glaws]
IPA: /ˈbyu glɒs, -glɔs/

Bugloss is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 102 anagrams from letters in bugloss (bglossu).

Definitions for bugloss

noun

  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.

Origin of bugloss

1350-1400; Middle English buglossa Medieval Latin, for Latin būglōssos Greek, equivalent to bou-, stem of boûs ox + -glōssos -tongued, adj. derivative of glôssa tongue

Examples for bugloss

The first thing you will notice about the Viper's bugloss is the way the rows of flower-buds curl like a scorpion.

I have seen the Viper's bugloss often since that day on the railroad train, now that I know it, and think of it.

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.

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

Mountebank, with thy pedantical action—Rimatrix, bugloss, Rhinoceros!

A species of bugloss, cultivated chiefly in the neighbourhood of Montpellier.

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

The Viper's bugloss is a stout, upright plant, with a curious pale green hairy stem, which is dotted all over with red spots.

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

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

Word Value for bugloss
Scrable

10

Words with friends

14

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