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Meanings of viper's bugloss in English
Portuguese
viperina A coarse prickly European weed with spikes of blue flowers; naturalized in United States.
Synonyms
Examples for "blueweed"
Examples for "blueweed"
1
I have got him now-anEnglish blue devil in a German inside.
2
He looked around, a slightly puzzled expression on his blue devil's face.
3
Your English climates sometimes gives your English blue devil to foreign mens like me.
4
There's not enough powder left to make a blue devil.
5
Suddenly he froze, and there was a quizzical expression on his blue devil's face.
1
To the butterfly-proboscisof Siebenkäs, enough honey-cellswere still open in every blue thistle-blossom of destiny.
2
The beaches are long and sandy, lined with tamarisks, blue thistles, dune pinks and rabbit-tail grass.
3
The wedding bouquet featured Lily of the Valley, Stephanotis pips, hints of baby blue thistles, white spray roses and trailing ivy.
4
A war drum was leading the chant, and as Vaylo looked on a standard was raised: the Bloody Blue Thistle of Dhoone.
5
The road that had been so long trodden by devout pilgrims was overgrown with furze and heather, and the blue thistles of the sands.
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This holds good with Euonymus, Rhamnus catharticus, Ilex, Fragaria, all or at least most of the before-named Labiatae, Scabiosa atro-purpurea, and Echium vulgare.
2
Echium vulgare, a humbug, merely a case like Thymus.
Usage of viper's bugloss in English
1
Blue-weed, or viper's bugloss; travels of; description of.
2
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.
3
The angle of a field by the woods on the eastern side of the heath, the entire corner, is blue in July with viper's bugloss.
4
Here were the thorn-apple, chenopodium, sow-thistle, wild mustard, redweed, viper's bugloss, and others, both native and introduced, in dense thickets five or six feet high.
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Viper's bugloss, which grows so freely by the heath, was so called because anciently it was thought to yield an antidote to the adder's venom.