blue devil

Questions about blue devil

What does blue devil mean?

blue devil means "a coarse prickly European weed with spikes of blue flowers; naturalized in United States". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for blue devil?

Close synonyms include blueweed, blue thistle, viper's bugloss, Echium vulgare, amobarbital sodium. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is blue devil a common word?

blue devil is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.