alkanet
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Diminutive of Spanish alcana, alheña.
Noun[edit]
alkanet (countable and uncountable, plural alkanets)
- Alkanna tinctoria, a plant whose root is used as a red dye.
- The dyeing matter extracted from the roots of the plant with water or oil, used for cotton especially but also silk and wool, giving a deep red colour.
- Other plants of the genus Alkanna.
- Anchusa officinalis (common bugloss), a similar plant.
- Anchusa ochroleuca (yellow alkanet).
- Anchusa barrelieri (false alkanet).
- Lithospermum arvense (bastard alkanet or field gromwell).
- Pentaglottis sempervirens (green alkanet), a blue-flowered plant with evergreen leaves.
- Puccoon (Sanguinaria canadensis).
Synonyms[edit]
- (Alkanna tinctoria): orchanet, orcanette, dyer's alkanet, bugloss, dyers' bugloss, Spanish bugloss, Languedoc bugloss
Translations[edit]
Alkanna tinctoria
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a dye extracted from this plant
References[edit]
- “alkanet”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams[edit]
Finnish[edit]
Verb[edit]
alkanet
Anagrams[edit]
Norwegian Bokmål[edit]
Noun[edit]
alkanet n
Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]
Noun[edit]
alkanet n
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