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Viper's bugloss   Listen
Viper's bugloss

noun
1.
A coarse prickly European weed with spikes of blue flowers; naturalized in United States.  Synonyms: blue devil, blue thistle, blueweed, Echium vulgare.






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"Viper's bugloss" Quotes from Famous Books



... properly be red instead of white, but as it is difficult to get red cloth, except in the shape of handkerchiefs, a substitution has been made, the two colors having a close mythologic relation. In former days a piece of buckskin and the small glossy, seeds of the Viper's Bugloss (Echium vulgare) were used instead of the cloth and beads. The formulistic name for the bead is sn[)i]kta, which the priests are unable to analyze, the ordinary word for beads or ...
— Seventh Annual Report • Various



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