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noun
Any plant of species Echium vulgare, family Boraginaceae, native to most of Europe and western and central Asia, and widely introduced elsewhere.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
a coarse prickly European weed with spikes of blue flowers; naturalized in United States
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: blueweed, blue devil, blue thistle, Echium vulgare
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: herb, herbaceous plant
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