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Definition of "oxtongue" []

  • Beef tongue (a foodstuff). (noun)
  • A flowering plant of the genus Picris, especially Picris echioides, the bristly oxtongue. (noun)

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Use "oxtongue" in a sentence
  • "They should have given him a garland of the speckled leaves and stems of oxtongue, for falsehood."
  • "“He wears, he wore a long surcoat with a pomegranate design, and a wreath of juniper and greenthorn and oxtongue.”"
  • "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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