- a European plant, Alkanna tinctoria, of the borage family.
- the root of this plant, yielding a red dye.
- the dye itself.
- any of several similar hairy plants, as the bugloss, Anchusa officinalis, or a puccoon of the genus Lithospermum.
- a European boraginaceous plant, Alkanna tinctoria, the roots of which yield a red dye
- the dye obtained from this plant
- any of certain hairy blue-flowered Old World plants of the boraginaceous genus Anchusa (or Pentaglottis), such as A. sempervirens of Europe
- another name for puccoon (def. 1)
