alkanet

alkanet

English

Etymology

Diminutive of Spanish alcana, alheña.

Noun

alkanet (countable and uncountable, plural alkanets)

1. Alkanna tinctoria, a plant whose root is used as a red dye.
2. The dyeing matter extracted from the plant, giving a deep red colour.
3. Other plants of the Alkanna genus.
4. Anchusa officinalis (common bugloss), a similar plant.
5. Anchusa ochroleuca (yellow alkanet).
6. Anchusa barrelieri (false alkanet).
7. Lithospermum arvense (bastard alkanet or field gromwell).
8. Pentaglottis sempervirens (green alkanet), a blue-flowered plant with evergreen leaves.
9. Puccoon (Sanguinaria canadensis).

Synonyms

• (Alkanna tinctoria): orchanet

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for alkanet in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Translations

Alkanna tinctoria

Portuguese: alcana f

Anagrams

• take an L

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Finnish

Verb

alkanet

1. Second-person singular potential present form of alkaa.

Anagrams

• lenkata, telakan

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Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

alkanet n

1. definite singular of alkan

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

alkanet n

1. definite singular of alkan