viper's bugloss

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsblueweedblue devilblue thistleEchium vulgare

   Broaderherb

   Part ofEchium

Questions about viper's bugloss

What does viper's bugloss mean?

viper's bugloss means "a coarse prickly European weed with spikes of blue flowers; naturalized in United States".

What is another word for viper's bugloss?

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

viper's bugloss 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.