hounds-tongue (n.)

  1. perennial shrub of North America having coarse tongue-shaped leaves and pale-blue to purple flowers

    [ Syn: hounds-tongue , cynoglossum virginaticum ]

  2. biennial shrub of Europe and western Asia having coarse tongue-shaped leaves and dark reddish-purple flowers

    [ Syn: hounds-tongue , cynoglossum officinale ]

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