bluet

American  

[bloo-it] / ˈblu ɪt /

noun

1. Also called innocence, Quaker-ladies.  Usually bluets. any of several North American plants of the genus Houstonia (orHedyotis ), of the madder family, especially H. caerulea, a low-growing plant having four-petaled blue and white flowers.

2. any of various other plants having blue flowers.

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bluet British  

/ ˈbluːɪt /

noun

1. a North American rubiaceous plant, Houstonia caerulea , with small four-petalled blue flowers

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Etymology

Origin of bluet

1400–50; late Middle English blewet, blewed, variant of Middle English bloweth, blowed ( blue, blae ); suffix perhaps Old English -et, as in thicket

Example Sentences

Billy picked a bluet and the grasshopper picked a bluet.

From The Grasshopper Stories by Leavitt, Elizabeth Davis

The elder edge with its warm perfume, And the sapphire stars of the bluet bloom; The moss, the fern, and the touch-me-not I breathed, and the mint-smell keen and hot.

From The Garden of Dreams by Cawein, Madison J.

The deep seclusion of this forest path,— O'er which the green boughs weave a canopy, Along which bluet and anemone Spread a dim carpet; where the twilight hath Her dark abode; and, sweet as aftermath.

From Weeds by the Wall Verses by Cawein, Madison Julius

There plucked we the bluet, her hue Of the deeper forget-me-not; Well wedding her ripe-wheat hair.

From Poems — Volume 2 by Meredith, George

With redbud cheeks and bluet eyes, Big eyes, the homes of happiness, To meet me with the old surprise, Her wild-rose hair all bonnetless.

From Poems by Cawein, Madison Julius