am·sinck·i·a ( m-s ngk  - )n. An annual herb of the genus Amsinckia, native to southern California, with rough, bristly, pubescent herbage and large, coiled, yellow to orange flowers. Also called fiddleneck. [New Latin Amsinckia, genus name, after Wilhelm Amsinck (died 1831), German botanist.] |
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| Noun | 1. | Amsinckia - rough annual herbs of Europe and the Americas: fiddlenecks plant genus - a genus of plants borage family, Boraginaceae, family Boraginaceae - a widely distributed family of plants distinguished by circinate flowers and nutlike fruit Amsinckia intermedia, common amsinckia - annual of western United States with coiled spikes of yellow-orange coiled flowers Amsinckia grandiflora, large-flowered fiddleneck - annual of the western United States having large coiled flower spikes; a threatened species |
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