Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of plants, natural order Boraginaceæ, consisting of about 60 herbaceous species, of temperate regions and the mountains of the tropics.
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- noun a large genus of tall rough herbs belonging to the family Boraginaceae
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Examples
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"Lichen with milk in the morning, syrup of marshmallow, two cynoglossum pills!" ordered De Espadaña.
The Social Cancer Jos�� Rizal 1878
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In Italy it is the same, only in it you have the soft tender green of budding vines, fig trees, and pomegranate; and here in Austria, the glorious Carinthian mountains are veined with masses of the intense azure of the cynoglossum, while the plains below are rich in mantles of the Imperial blue of the exquisite gentians.
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And again: "A drink for a fiend-sick man, to be drunk out of a church bell: Githrife, cynoglossum, yarrow, lupin, flower-de-luce, fennel, lichen, lovage.
A History of the warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom 1896
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