alkanet

[ UK /ˈælkɐnˌɛt/ ]
NOUN
  1. perennial or biennial herb cultivated for its delicate usually blue flowers

How To Use alkanet In A Sentence

  • She might have finished the look with saffron eye shadow and lip balm tinted with ocher and alkanet root.
  • Old English names are (dyer's) alkanet and orcanet.
  • She put divers herbs in it, herbs yielding coloured juices such as safflower and alkanet, and soapwort and fleawort to give consistency or 'body' to the lye; she put in alum and blue vitriol (or sulphate of copper), and she put in blood. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield
  • One of the plants we saw here was green alkanet, Pentaglottis sempervirens
  • She might have finished the look with saffron eye shadow and lip balm tinted with ocher and alkanet root.
  • Well-known dye-plants are included, among them dyer's alkanet, elderberry, henna, indigo, madder and saffron, and each plant is illustrated in colour.
  • [3] Lit. "enamelled or painted with anchusa or alkanet," a plant, the wild bugloss, whose root yields a red dye. The Economist
  • The path snaked along the trackbed between banks of stitchwort, yellow archangel and sky-blue flowers of green alkanet. Times, Sunday Times
  • She might have finished the look with saffron eye shadow and lip balm tinted with ocher and alkanet root.
  • Lit. “enamelled or painted with anchusa or alkanet,” a plant, the wild bugloss, whose root yields a red dye. Oeconomicus
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