noun 1.Usually, bluets. Also called innocence, Quaker-ladies. any of several North American plants of the genus
Houstonia (or
Hedyotis ), 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.
Origin: 1400–50; late Middle English blewet, blewed, variant of
Middle English bloweth, blowed (see
blue,
blae); suffix perhaps
Old English -et, as in
thicket