Blue Devil (Noun)
Meaning 1
A coarse prickly European weed with spikes of blue flowers; naturalized in United States.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- The gardener struggled to eradicate the blue devil that had taken over her garden.
- The fields were filled with blue devil, its bright blue flowers swaying gently in the breeze.
- After a long winter, the first sign of spring was the emergence of the blue devil weeds.
- The park ranger warned hikers to watch out for the blue devil that grew along the trails.
- The farmer's children loved playing in the fields of blue devil, but their parents hated the way it spread.
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Meaning 2
The sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic.
Classification
Nouns denoting man-made objects.