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Borage

noun

Hairy blue-flowered European annual herb long used in herbal medicine and eaten raw as salad greens or cooked like spinach. Synonyms: Borago officinalis, tailwort.

An herb whose leaves are used to flavor sauces and punches; young leaves can be eaten in salads or cooked.

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"Borage" Quotes from Famous Books

... with the inhabitants, will not grow as grass, but chokes itself with a network of grey weeds, quite wonderful in its various expression of thorny discontent and savageness; the blue flower of the borage, which mingles with it in quantities, hardly interrupting its character, for the violent black spots in the centre of its blue takes away the tenderness of the flower, and it seems to have grown there in some supernatural mockery of its old ...

— Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) • John Ruskin

... and noble actions, others to make us rivals of the bountiful and kind; which if a man cunningly and without any apparent design inserts for the instruction of the rest, he will free these entertainments from many of those considerable evils which usually attend them. Some that put borage into the wine, or sprinkle the floor with water in which verbena and maiden-hair have been steeped, as good raise mirth and jollity in the guests (in imitation of Homer's Helen, who with some medicament diluted the pure wine she had prepared), do ...

— Essays and Miscellanies - The Complete Works Volume 3 • Plutarch

... me,' Reflecting ''twas enough to live, to look Wonder and love. Now let that come again. Rise!' And ariseth first a tanglement Of flowering bushes, peonies pale that drop Upon a mossy lawn, rich iris spikes, Bee-borage, mealy-stemmed auricula, Brown wallflower, and the sweetbriar ever sweet, Her pink buds pouting from their green. To these Add thick espaliers where the bullfinch came To strew much budding wealth, and was not chid. Then ...

— Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II. • Jean Ingelow

Words linked to "Borage" : herb, Borago, herbaceous plant, genus Borago, Borago officinalis, tailwort, borage family, country borage