genus Echium

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1.genus Echium - a genus of bristly herbs and shrubs of the family BoraginaceaeEchiumplant genus - a genus of plantsborage family, Boraginaceae, family Boraginaceae - a widely distributed family of plants distinguished by circinate flowers and nutlike fruitblue devil, blue thistle, blueweed, Echium vulgare, viper's bugloss - a coarse prickly European weed with spikes of blue flowers; naturalized in United States