Definition of Country borage

1. Noun. An aromatic fleshy herb of India and Ceylon to South Africa; sometimes placed in genus Plectranthus.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Country Borage

countrify
countrifying
countrol
countrols
country
country-and-western
country-bred
country-code
country-dance
country-fried steak
country-style
country-western music
country and western
country beam
country beams
country borage (current term)
country bumpkin
country bumpkins
country club
country codes
country cousin
country dance
country dancing
country doctor
country folks
country house
country houses
country mile
country music
country of origin

Literary usage of Country borage

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia: Commercial by Edward Balfour (1885)
"... used to express an article local and not foreign. The Tamil word Nat'h has this signification. Country Almond Tree, Terminalia catappa. country borage ..."

2. Pharmacographia Indica: A History of the Principal Drugs of Vegetable Origin by William Dymock (1893)
"country borage (En<j.). Hab.—Moluccas. Cultivated throughout India and Ceylon. The leaves. Vernacular.—Pathar-chdr (Hind., Beng.), Pdn-ova (Mar.). ..."

3. The New Sydenham Society's Lexicon of Medicine and the Allied Sciences ...by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society (1882)
"country borage. Hab. India. An aromatic carminative. Used in colic, asthma, coughs, and epilepsy. Colic. ..."

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