oxtongue

The tongue of an ox.

One of several plants with rough tongue-shaped leaves, especially Picris (Helminthia) echioides, and the alkanet, Anchusa officinalis. Compare bugloss.

A name sometimes given to the anlace, braquemart, and similar short broadswords.

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.

Beef tongue (a foodstuff).

A flowering plant of the genus Picris, especially Picris echioides, the bristly oxtongue.

widespread European weed with spiny tongue-shaped leaves and yellow flowers; naturalized in United States