<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a European plant, Alkanna tinctoria, of the borage family.</li><li>the root of this plant, yielding a red dye.</li><li>the dye itself.</li><li>any of several similar hairy plants, as the bugloss, Anchusa officinalis, or a puccoon of the genus Lithospermum.</li></ul>