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

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 Cawein, Madison J.

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.

“And here are some bluet, the violet roosters’ little pale-blue hens.

From The Valiants of Virginia by Rives, Hallie Erminie

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