Definition of "anchusa" []

• One of the genus Anchusa of rough and hairy Old World herbs with one-sided clusters of trumpet-shaped flowers in the family Boraginaceae. (noun)

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• "TAKE ROOT If you are looking to propagate perennials, those with fleshy roots such as anchusa, phlox, verbascum, oriental poppy and acanthus lend themselves to root cuttings."
• "Lit. “enamelled or painted with anchusa or alkanet,” a plant, the wild bugloss, whose root yields a red dye."
• "To the east, separating the lawn from the walk, which is west of the canna beds, is a border of dusty miller next the grass and one row each of blue anchusa and red snapdragon."