Alkanet

1. n. The similar plant Anchusa officinalis; bugloss; also, the American puccoon.
2. n. A dyeing matter extracted from the roots of Alkanna tinctoria, which gives a fine deep red color.
3. n. A boraginaceous herb (Alkanna tinctoria) yielding the dye; orchanet.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.