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 ( see blue, blae); suffix perhaps Old English -et, as in thicket

Example Sentences

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bluet

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 Madison Julius Cawein

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

From Poems — Volume 2 by George Meredith

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

From The Garden of Dreams by Madison J. Cawein

Billy picked a bluet and the grasshopper picked a bluet.

From The Grasshopper Stories by Elizabeth Davis Leavitt

And I see the eyes of the bluet wink,   And the heads of the white-hearts nod; And the baby mouths of the woodland-pink   And sorrel salute the sod.

From Poems by Madison Julius Cawein