oxtongue

ox´tongue`

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(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.

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Noun

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oxtongue - widespread European weed with spiny tongue-shaped leaves and yellow flowers; naturalized in United States bitterweed, bristly oxtongue, Picris echioides, bugloss genus Picris, Picris - genus of weedy Old World yellow-flowered herbs usually containing a bitter-tasting substance: bitterweed weed - any plant that crowds out cultivated plants