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LOVE-IN-A-MIST
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
European garden plant having finely cut leaves and white or pale blue flowers
Synonyms:
love-in-a-mist; Nigella damascena
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("love-in-a-mist" is a kind of...):
nigella (any plant of the genus Nigella)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Chickweed with hairy silver-grey leaves and rather large white flowers
Synonyms:
Cerastium tomentosum; love-in-a-mist; snow-in-summer
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("love-in-a-mist" is a kind of...):
chickweed; clammy chickweed; mouse-ear chickweed; mouse ear; mouse eared chickweed (any of various plants related to the common chickweed)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Tropical American passion flower with finely dissected bracts; stems malodorous when crushed
Synonyms:
love-in-a-mist; Passiflora foetida; running pop; wild water lemon
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("love-in-a-mist" is a kind of...):
passionflower; passionflower vine (any of various chiefly tropical American vines some bearing edible fruit)
