Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The tongue of an ox.
- noun One of several plants with rough tongue-shaped leaves, especially Picris (Helminthia) echioides, and the alkanet, Anchusa officinalis. Compare
bugloss . - noun A name sometimes given to the anlace, braquemart, and similar short broadswords.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A widespread European weed (
Picris echioides formerlyHelminthia echioides ) with spiny tongue-shaped leaves and yellow flowers. The name is applied to several plants, from the shape and roughness of their leaves; as,Anchusa officinalis , a kind of bugloss, andHelminthia echioides , both European herbs. It has been naturalized in the U. S.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Beef tongue (a foodstuff). - noun A
flowering plant of thegenus Picris, especially Picris echioides, the bristly oxtongue.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun widespread European weed with spiny tongue-shaped leaves and yellow flowers; naturalized in United States
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Examples
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“He wears, he wore a long surcoat with a pomegranate design, and a wreath of juniper and greenthorn and oxtongue.”
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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They should have given him a garland of the speckled leaves and stems of oxtongue, for falsehood.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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“He wears, he wore a long surcoat with a pomegranate design, and a wreath of juniper and greenthorn and oxtongue.”
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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They should have given him a garland of the speckled leaves and stems of oxtongue, for falsehood.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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“He wears, he wore a long surcoat with a pomegranate design, and a wreath of juniper and greenthorn and oxtongue.”
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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They should have given him a garland of the speckled leaves and stems of oxtongue, for falsehood.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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To bezoar stone most subscribe, Manardus, and [4328] many others; it takes away sadness, and makes him merry that useth it; I have seen some that have been much diseased with faintness, swooning, and melancholy, that taking the weight of three grains of this stone, in the water of oxtongue, have been cured.
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The dogwood leaves are bright carmine, and the maple yellow as sulphur, the last flowers are out in the hedges, the pink cranesbill and the blue oxtongue which will hang on till after
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