Ox-tongue

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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