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Definition of bluet in English: bluetnoun ˈbluːɪtˈblo͞oət A low-growing evergreen North American plant with milky-blue flowers. Hedyotis or 'Houstonia' caerulea, family Rubiaceae Example sentencesExamples - He stands as a glad, unnecessary witness to an event - the bluets unseasonable flowering - made possible and then actually made by ‘stamina.’
- Those little bluets look so sweet!
- I stopped dead in my tracks and grinned real big when I noticed that the lawns are speckled with beautiful little bluets.
- That bluet breaks me up, tiny spring flower late, late in dour October.
- The only other large masses of flowers I saw this early in Georgia were little bluets and spring beauties.
Origin Early 18th century: from French, diminutive of bleu 'blue'. Rhymes cruet, intuit, suet, Yuit Definition of bluet in US English: bluetnounˈblo͞oət A low-growing North American plant of the bedstraw family, with small four-petaled flowers and paired leaves. Bluets often grow in large groups. Genus Houstonia or 'Hedyotis', family Rubiaceae: several species, especially H. caerulea, with milky-blue or white flowers, and long-leaved bluets (H. longifolia), with white or lavender flowers Example sentencesExamples - He stands as a glad, unnecessary witness to an event - the bluets unseasonable flowering - made possible and then actually made by ‘stamina.’
- Those little bluets look so sweet!
- I stopped dead in my tracks and grinned real big when I noticed that the lawns are speckled with beautiful little bluets.
- The only other large masses of flowers I saw this early in Georgia were little bluets and spring beauties.
- That bluet breaks me up, tiny spring flower late, late in dour October.
Origin Early 18th century: from French, diminutive of bleu ‘blue’. |