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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. widespread European weed with spiny tongue-shaped leaves and yellow flowers; naturalized in United States;
[syn: oxtongue, bristly oxtongue, bitterweed, bugloss, Picris echioides]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

oxtongue \ox"tongue`\, ox-tongue \ox"-tongue`\, n. (Bot.) A widespread European weed (Picris echioides formerly Helminthia 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, and Helminthia echioides, both European herbs. It has been naturalized in the U. S. Syn: bristly oxtongue, prickly oxtongue, bitterweed, bugloss. [1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

oxtongue n 1: widespread European weed with spiny tongue-shaped leaves and yellow flowers; naturalized in United States [syn: oxtongue, bristly oxtongue, bitterweed, bugloss, Picris echioides]