WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
blue devil n 1: a coarse prickly European weed with spikes of blue flowers; naturalized in United States [syn: blueweed, blue devil, blue thistle, viper's bugloss, Echium vulgare] 2: the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic [syn: amobarbital sodium, blue, blue angel, blue devil, Amytal]