Bot. [a. F. buplèvre:—L. būpleurum, a. Gr. βούπλευρον, f. βου- ox + πλευρόν rib.] The plant Hare’s-ear or Thorough-wax. ‘An English name adapted from the French, proposed by Bentham’ (Treas. Bot.).
1881. G. Allen, in Cornh. Mag., June, 706. The narrow buplever flowers only at Torquay and in Jersey and Guernsey. Ibid., 716. Torquay … shares a southern buplever with the Channel Islands.
