"anchusa" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "etymology_text": "From the genus name.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "anchusas",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
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      "expansion": "anchusa (plural anchusas)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "name": "Borage family plants",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "1835, Philip Miller, \"Anchusa\", entry in The Gardener's Dictionary, Volume I, 9th Edition, page 430,\nAnchusa and Cinnabar were used by the antients to give an agreeable colour to their ointments; and Pliny tells us that where the anchusa was used, they added salt to prevent the oil in those compositions from becoming rancid."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1975, Ippolito Pizzetti, Henry Cocker, Flowers: A Guide for Your Garden, Volume 1, [page 55]",
          "text": "Unfortunately, anchusas have the defect of being coarse in appearance, with hairy leaves and stems which are neither elegant nor graceful.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, A. Cort Sinnes, The Big Book of Flowers, page number not shown",
          "text": "Related to the common annual form of forget-me-nots (Myosotis), the two species of anchusa produce some of the bluest of the blue flowers in the plant kingdom, and both are easy to grow.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any plant of the genus Anchusa (within family Boraginaceae) of rough and hairy Old World herbs with one-sided clusters of trumpet-shaped flowers."
      ],
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          "Boraginaceae",
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          "one-sided",
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      "wikipedia": [
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  "word": "anchusa"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "From the genus name.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "anchusas",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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      "expansion": "anchusa (plural anchusas)",
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  "pos": "noun",
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        "en:Borage family plants"
      ],
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        {
          "text": "1835, Philip Miller, \"Anchusa\", entry in The Gardener's Dictionary, Volume I, 9th Edition, page 430,\nAnchusa and Cinnabar were used by the antients to give an agreeable colour to their ointments; and Pliny tells us that where the anchusa was used, they added salt to prevent the oil in those compositions from becoming rancid."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1975, Ippolito Pizzetti, Henry Cocker, Flowers: A Guide for Your Garden, Volume 1, [page 55]",
          "text": "Unfortunately, anchusas have the defect of being coarse in appearance, with hairy leaves and stems which are neither elegant nor graceful.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, A. Cort Sinnes, The Big Book of Flowers, page number not shown",
          "text": "Related to the common annual form of forget-me-nots (Myosotis), the two species of anchusa produce some of the bluest of the blue flowers in the plant kingdom, and both are easy to grow.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any plant of the genus Anchusa (within family Boraginaceae) of rough and hairy Old World herbs with one-sided clusters of trumpet-shaped flowers."
      ],
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  "word": "anchusa"
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