alkanet

Meanings

Plural: alkanets

Noun

• perennial or biennial herb cultivated for its delicate usually blue flowers
• Alkanna tinctoria, a plant whose root is used as a red dye.
• The dyeing matter extracted from the roots of the plant with water or oil, used for cotton especially but also silk and wool, giving a deep red colour.
• Other plants of the genus Alkanna.
• Anchusa officinalis (common bugloss), a similar plant.
• Anchusa ochroleuca (yellow alkanet).
• Cynoglottis barrelieri (syn. Anchusa barrelieri, false alkanet).
• Lithospermum arvense (bastard alkanet or field gromwell).
• Pentaglottis sempervirens (green alkanet), a blue-flowered plant with evergreen leaves.
• Puccoon (Sanguinaria canadensis).

Synonyms

Anchusa officinalis, bugloss, dyer's alkanet, dyers' bugloss, Languedoc bugloss, orcanette, orchanet, Spanish bugloss