单词 | bluet |
释义 | bluet /blooh"it/, n. 1. Usually, bluets. Also called innocence, Quaker-ladies. any of several North American plants of the genus Houstonia (or Hedyotis), of the madder family, esp. H. caerulea, a low-growing plant having four-petaled blue and white flowers. 2. any of various other plants having blue flowers. [1400-50; late ME blewet, blewed, var. of ME bloweth, blowed (see BLUE, BLAE); suffix perh. OE -et, as in THICKET] |
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