''viper's bugloss'' ▫ᴱᴺ｜Definition｜1st｜20260831183549-00-⌔

viper’s bugloss - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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Noun

viper’s bugloss (uncountable)

• Any plant of species Echium vulgare, family Boraginaceae, native to most of Europe and western and central Asia, and widely introduced elsewhere.
  • ✤ One of the old Leech Books gives the formula for a salve against the “elfin race and nocturnal goblin visitors.” Fourteen herbs, including wormwood, viper’s bugloss and fennel, were first gathered.¹

Etymology

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Footnotes

1. 1940, Rosetta E. Clarkson, Green Enchantments: The Magic Spell of Gardens, The Macmillan Company, page 257: ↩