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Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

alkanet

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
alka-net
IPA
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any member of the species Alkanna tinctoria, a plant whose root is used as a red dye.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

Any member of the species Alkanna tinctoria, a plant whose root is used as a red dye.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

Common bugloss (Anchusa officinalis).

Countable; Uncountable

noun

Yellow alkanet (Anchusa ochroleuca).

Countable; Uncountable

noun

False alkanet (Cynoglottis barrelieri, syn. Anchusa barrelieri).

Countable; Uncountable

noun

Bastard alkanet or field gromwell (Lithospermum arvense).

Countable; Uncountable

noun

Green alkanet (Pentaglottis sempervirens), a blue-flowered plant with evergreen leaves.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

Puccoon (Sanguinaria canadensis).

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

Diminutive of Spanish alcana, alheña.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

alkanets (plural)

Synonyms

orchanet orcanette dyer's alkanet bugloss dyers' bugloss Spanish bugloss Languedoc bugloss anchusa officinalis

Questions

What does alkanet mean?
Any member of the species Alkanna tinctoria, a plant whose root is used as a red dye.
Where does alkanet come from?
It is traced to Spanish.

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