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anchusa
[ang-kyoo-suh, -zuh, an-choo-]
noun
any plant of the genus Anchusa, of the borage family, several species of which are cultivated for their blue or purplish flowers that resemble forget-me-nots.
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of anchusa1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of anchusa1
Example Sentences
That when French ladies coloured their faces with an ointment containing anchusa the colour did not last long.
But as we ascend slowly the flowers increase; wild hollyhocks, and morning-glories, and clumps of blue anchusa, and scarlet adonis, and tall wands of white asphodel.
To the east, separating the lawn from the walk, which is west of the canna beds, is a border of dusty miller next the grass and one row each of blue anchusa and red snapdragon.
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