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| 1. | the quality or state of being innocent; freedom from sin or moral wrong. |
| 2. | freedom from legal or specific wrong; guiltlessness: The prisoner proved his innocence. |
| 3. | simplicity; absence of guile or cunning; naiveté. |
| 4. | lack of knowledge or understanding. |
| 5. | harmlessness; innocuousness. |
| 6. | chastity. |
| 7. | an innocent person or thing. |
| 8. | bluet (def. 1). |
| 9. | blue-eyed Mary. |
| a North American plant, Collinsia verna, of the figwort family, having long-stalked flowers with the upper lip white or purple and the lower lip blue. |
| 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. |
| blue-eyed Mary n. An annual North American herb (Collinsia verna) having bicolored flowers with two lips. Also called innocence. |
in·no·cence (ĭn'ə-səns) n.
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