blue devil

English Thesaurus

1. the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic (noun.artifact)

hypernym	:	amobarbital,
definition	:	a barbiturate with sedative and hypnotic effects; used to relieve insomnia and as an anticonvulsant (noun.artifact)

2. a coarse prickly European weed with spikes of blue flowers; naturalized in United States (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	herb, herbaceous plant,
definition	:	a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	echium, genus echium,
definition	:	a genus of bristly herbs and shrubs of the family Boraginaceae (noun.plant)