[luhv-in-uh-mist] Pronunciation Key | a plant, Nigella damascena, of the buttercup family, having feathery dissected leaves and whitish or blue flowers. |
] Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.
| love-in-a-mist (lŭv'ĭn-ə-mĭst')
n. A Mediterranean plant (Nigella damascena) having blue or whitish flowers surrounded by numerous threadlike bracts. |
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| love-in-a-mist | |
noun | |
| 1. | tropical American passion flower with finely dissected bracts; stems malodorous when crushed |
| 2. | chickweed with hairy silver-grey leaves and rather large white flowers [syn: snow-in-summer] |
| 3. | European garden plant having finely cut leaves and white or pale blue flowers |
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