alkanet

1. Alkanet
   (Bot) A boraginaceous herb (Alkanna tinctoria) yielding the dye; orchanet.
2. Alkanet
   (Chem) A dyeing matter extracted from the roots of Alkanna tinctoria, which gives a fine deep red color.
3. Alkanet
   (Bot) The similar plant Anchusa officinalis; bugloss; also, the American puccoon.

1. (n) alkanet
   The root of a boraginaceous herb, Alkanna (Anchusa) tinctoria, yielding a red dye, for which the plant is cultivated in central and southern Europe. It is used in dyeing, staining wood, coloring adulterated wines, and in pharmacy to give a red color to salves, etc. It produces brilliant violet and gray colors with alum and iron mordants on linen, cotton, and silk, but not on wool.
2. (n) alkanet
   The plant which yields the dye, Alkanna tinctoria. Also called orcanet and Spanish bugloss.
3. (n) alkanet
   A name of similar plants of other genera. The common alkanet of England is Anchusa officinalis; the evergreen alkanet, A. sempervirens; the bastard alkanet, Lithospermum arvense, and in America L. canescens.

1. (n) Alkanet
   al′ka-net a plant, native of the Levant and Southern Europe, cultivated for its root, which yields a red colouring matter: the dye itself.

anchusa officinalis

anchusa

anchusa Anchusin bugloss Lithospermum Orchanet oxtongue redroot

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