Bot. Forms: 6–7 buglosse, (6 buglose, 8–9 buglos), 7– bugloss. [a. F. buglosse:—L. būglōssa, ad. Gr. βούγλωσσος, f. βούς ox + γλώσσα 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.

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1533.  Elyot, Cast. Helth (1541), 11. Cynamome: Saffron … Buglosse: Borage.

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1542.  Boorde, Dyetary, xix. The rootes of Borage and Buglosse soden tender … doth ingender good blode.

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1605.  B. Jonson, Volpone, III. iv. 61. A little muske, dri’d mints, Buglosse, and barley-meale.

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1699.  Evelyn, Acetaria, 14. What we now call Bugloss, was not that of the Ancients.

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1783.  Crabbe, Village, I. Wks. 1834, II. 77. There the blue bugloss paints the sterile soil.

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1837.  Campbell, Dead Eagle. Fields … blue with bugloss.

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  b.  Comb. Bugloss Cowslip.

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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.

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