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 ̷ ̷\ noun1. : 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
Useful english dictionary. 2012.