About The Word Borage
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Borage
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What's The Definition Of Borage?
[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 Synonyms | Synonyms for Borage: Borago officinalis | tailwort Related Terms | Find terms related to Borage: See Also | borage | borage | Borago | Borago officinalis | genus Borago | herb | herb | herbaceous plant | tailwort Borage In Webster's Dictionary \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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