oxtongue
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A flowering plant of the genus Picris, especially Picris echioides (bristly oxtongue).
Countable; Uncountable
noun
A flowering plant of the genus Anchusa, especially Anchusa officinalis (true alkanet).
Countable; Uncountable
Etymology
From Middle English oxtonge; equivalent to ox + tongue. In the sense of Anchusa a calque of Ancient Greek βούγλωσσον (boúglōsson).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: oxtonge