borage family

American

noun

any member of the plant family Boraginaceae, typified by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having simple, alternate, hairy leaves and usually blue, five-lobed flowers in a cluster that uncoils as they bloom, including borage, bugloss, and forget-me-not.

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borage family

Gromwell, grom′wel, n. a herb of the borage family.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

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