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blu⋅et

[bloo-it]
–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, esp. 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 ME blewet, blewed, var. of ME bloweth, blowed (see blue, blae ); suffix perh. OE -et, as in thicket
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