NOUN
- an herb whose leaves are used to flavor sauces and punches; young leaves can be eaten in salads or cooked
- hairy blue-flowered European annual herb long used in herbal medicine and eaten raw as salad greens or cooked like spinach
How To Use borage In A Sentence
- Other flower petal choices are rose, nasturtium, borage, dandelions and violets.
- Sprinkle with chopped mint or coriander and some bright petals - calendula, borage, courgette flowers or anything edible.
- Collect herb flowers such as borage and chamomile just before full flowering.
- Adventurous herbalists like to experiment with basil, oregano and rosemary, also including the more exotic plants like sweet woodruff, lemon grass and borage.
- Candied borage flowers make beautiful decorations for cakes and pastries, and it's easy to do.
- The wild olive is a member of the borage family that matures to about 20 feet in height and has a rounded crown on a short trunk.
- As syrup of borage (there is a famous syrup of borage highly commended by Laurentius to this purpose in his tract of melancholy), de pomis of king Sabor, now obsolete, of thyme and epithyme, hops, scolopendria, fumitory, maidenhair, bizantine, &c. Anatomy of Melancholy
- He told me, first of all, that I should not buy cow tongue flower I learned later that the English name is 'borage' teabags, but rather that I have to get the actual loose petals, or else it won't work. Archive 2006-07-01
- The decision by farmers to profit from high wheat prices by increasing arable production has been at the expense of crops such as borage, used in pharmaceutical manufacturing and a prolific source of nectar for bees. Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Frontpage RSS Feed
- Ashley Palmer-Watts Roast scallops with cucumber ketchup and borage at Heston Blumenthal's Dinner restaurant in London. Culinary Reflections
