echium vulgare

1. 1.

   a coarse prickly European weed with spikes of blue flowers; naturalized in United States

   Synonymsblueweedblue devilblue thistleviper's bugloss

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   Part ofEchium

Questions about echium vulgare

What does echium vulgare mean?

echium vulgare means "a coarse prickly European weed with spikes of blue flowers; naturalized in United States".

What is another word for echium vulgare?

Close synonyms include blueweed, blue devil, blue thistle, viper's bugloss. 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 echium vulgare a common word?

echium vulgare 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.