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Borage

//ˈbɒɹ.ɪd͡ʒ// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Borago officinalis, a Mediterranean plant with rough, cucumber-flavored leaves and stems, used in salads and cooked. uncountable, usually
  2. 2
    an herb whose leaves are used to flavor sauces and punches; young leaves can be eaten in salads or cooked wordnet
  3. 3
    hairy blue-flowered European annual herb long used in herbal medicine and eaten raw as salad greens or cooked like spinach wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English borage, borrowed from Old French borage (compare French bourrache), from Medieval Latin borrago, either from Latin borra (“short wool, rough hair”) or Arabic أَبُو العَرَق (ʔabū l-ʕaraq, literally “father of sweat”).

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