love-in-a-mist

noun

1. tropical American passion flower with finely dissected bracts; stems malodorous when crushed

• Syn: ↑running pop, ↑wild water lemon, ↑Passiflora foetida

• Hypernyms: ↑passionflower, ↑passionflower vine

2. chickweed with hairy silver-grey leaves and rather large white flowers

• Syn: ↑snow-in-summer, ↑Cerastium tomentosum

• Hypernyms: ↑mouse-ear chickweed, ↑mouse eared chickweed, ↑mouse ear, ↑clammy chickweed, ↑chickweed

3. European garden plant having finely cut leaves and white or pale blue flowers

• Syn: ↑Nigella damascena

• Hypernyms: ↑nigella

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\\ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˈ ̷ ̷\ noun

1. : a European garden plant (Nigella damascena) having the flowers enveloped in numerous finely dissected bracts

2. : a tropical American passionflower (Passiflora foetida) with finely dissected bracts

3. : snow-in-summer a

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/luv"in euh mist"/, n.

a plant, Nigella damascena, of the buttercup family, having feathery dissected leaves and whitish or blue flowers.

[1750-60]

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loveˈ-in-a-mistˈ noun

1. A fennel-flower (Nigella damascena)

2. A West Indian passion flower

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Main Entry: ↑love

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love-in-a-mist «LUHV ihn uh MIHST», noun.

a garden plant of the crowfoot family, native to southern Europe, having feathery leaves and pale-blue flowers; fennelflower; devil-in-the-bush.

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n. a Mediterranean plant of the buttercup family that bears blue flowers surrounded by delicate threadlike green bracts, giving a hazy appearance to the flowers. ● Nigella damascena, family Ranunculaceae