helminthia echioides

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helminthia echioides - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  oxtongue \ox"tongue`\, ox-tongue \ox"-tongue`\, n. (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.
  
     Syn: bristly oxtongue, prickly oxtongue, bitterweed, bugloss.
          [1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5]