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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
borage is a noun meaning "hairy blue-flowered European annual herb long used in herbal medicine and eaten raw as salad greens or cooked like spinach". It carries 2 recorded senses.
hairy blue-flowered European annual herb long used in herbal medicine and eaten raw as salad greens or cooked like spinach
an herb whose leaves are used to flavor sauces and punches; young leaves can be eaten in salads or cooked
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for borage come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.