borago officinalis

1. 1.

   hairy blue-flowered European annual herb long used in herbal medicine and eaten raw as salad greens or cooked like spinach

   Synonymsboragetailwort

   Broaderherb

   Part ofBorago

   Partsborage

Questions about borago officinalis

What does borago officinalis mean?

borago officinalis means "hairy blue-flowered European annual herb long used in herbal medicine and eaten raw as salad greens or cooked like spinach".

What is another word for borago officinalis?

Close synonyms include borage, tailwort. 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 borago officinalis a common word?

borago officinalis is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.