alkanet

English

Etymology

Diminutive of Spanish alcana, alheña.

Noun

alkanet (countable and uncountable, plural alkanets)

1. Alkanna tinctoria, a plant whose root is used as a red dye.
2. The dyeing matter extracted from the roots of the plant with water or oil, used for cotton especially but also silk and wool, giving a deep red colour.
3. Other plants of the genus Alkanna.
4. Anchusa officinalis (common bugloss), a similar plant.
5. Anchusa ochroleuca (yellow alkanet).
6. Anchusa barrelieri (false alkanet).
7. Lithospermum arvense (bastard alkanet or field gromwell).
8. Pentaglottis sempervirens (green alkanet), a blue-flowered plant with evergreen leaves.
9. Puccoon (Sanguinaria canadensis).

Synonyms

• (Alkanna tinctoria): orchanet, orcanette, dyer's alkanet, bugloss, dyers' bugloss, Spanish bugloss, Languedoc bugloss

Translations

Alkanna tinctoria

• French: orcanette des teinturiers (fr) f
• German: Schminkwurz
• Greek:

  Ancient: ἄγχουσα f (ánkhousa)

• Korean: 알칸나 (alkanna)
• Polish: alkanna barwierska f
• Portuguese: alcana f
• Russian: алканна (alkanna), Алканна красильная (Alkanna krasilnaya)

a dye extracted from this plant

• French: orcanette (fr) f, orcanette des teinturiers (fr) f
• German: Orkanette
• Greek:

  Ancient: ἄγχουσα f (ánkhousa)

• Italian: alcanna f, ancusa f
• Portuguese: orchanet
• Spanish: orcaneta f

References

• “alkanet”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• kantela, take an L

Finnish

Verb

alkanet

1. second-person singular present potential of alkaa

Anagrams

• lenkata, telakan

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

alkanet n

1. definite singular of alkan

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

alkanet n

1. definite singular of alkan