Meaning of BORAGE
| Pronunciation: | | 'burij
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- [n] leaves flavor sauces and punches; young leaves eaten in salads or cooked
- [n] hairy blue-flowered European annual herb long used in herbal medicine and eaten raw as salad greens or cooked like spinach
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| | Synonyms: | | Borago officinalis, tailwort |
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| | See Also: | | borage, borage, Borago, Borago officinalis, genus Borago, herb, herb, herbaceous plant, tailwort | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Bor"age\, n. [OE. borage (cf. F. bourrache, It.
borraggine, borrace, LL. borago, borrago, LGr. ?), fr. LL.
borra, F. bourre, hair of beasts, flock; so called from its
hairy leaves.] (Bot.)
A mucilaginous plant of the genus Borago (B. officinalis),
which is used, esp. in France, as a demulcent and
diaphoretic.
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