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Meanings of alkanet in English
Spanish
onoquiles Red dye extracted from the roots of various species of Old World plants.
Related terms
Perennial or biennial herb cultivated for its delicate usually blue flowers.
Usage of alkanet in English
1
Hydrochloric acid, whether dilute or concentrated, is without action on alkanet violet.
2
Among them are aniline violet, iodine violet, madder, alkanet, orchil and logwood.
3
Both the above articles are sold either white or colored with alkanet root.
4
The first group comprises madder, cochineal, orchil, alkanet, and murexide.
5
A little alkanet to color if you wish.
6
Color the grease very strongly with alkanet root, then proceed as for the manufacture of saponaceous cream.
7
No change of color indicates alkanet.
8
Cochineal is turned by the potassa to a violet-red, orchil to a violet-blue, and alkanet to a decided blue.
9
Olive oil one pound, attar of roses fifty drops, oil of rosemary twenty-five drops; mix, and color it with alkanet root.
10
Put into a wide-mouthed bottle four ounces of the best olive oil, with one ounce of the small parts of alkanet root.
11
One of these includes the forget-me-nots, the borage, the alkanet, and the viper's bugloss, which keep up this blue as a family heirloom.
12
Logwood violet is browned; that of orchil, if slightly reddish, is turned to a blue-violet; that of alkanet is modified to a fine blue.
13
My garden is at present amazingly blue with Dropmore Alkanet (Anchusa).
Frequent collocations
Alkanet through the time