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Alkanet

noun
1.
Perennial or biennial herb cultivated for its delicate usually blue flowers.  Synonyms: Anchusa officinalis, bugloss.






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... even in Greek literature. There is a curious passage (its text is faulty and the translation hard) in the story of the Argonauts, where Medea concocts a magic brew. She put divers herbs in it, herbs yielding coloured juices such as safflower and alkanet, and soapwort and fleawort to give consistency or 'body' to the lye; she put in alum and blue vitriol (or sulphate of copper), and she put in blood. The magic brew was no more and no less than a dye, a red or purple dye, ...
— The Legacy of Greece • Various



Words linked to "Alkanet" :   bugloss, Anchusa officinalis, anchusa



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