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bluet
bluet (ˈbluːɪt) n (Plants) a North American rubiaceous plant, Houstonia caerulea, with small four-petalled blue flowersblu•et (ˈblu ɪt)
n. 1. Usu., bluets. a low-growing North American plant, Houstonia caerula, of the madder family, with small four-petaled blue flowers. 2. any of various other plants having blue flowers. [1400–50; late Middle English blewet, blewed, variant of Middle English bloweth, blowed] bluet
bluet: see maddermadder,
common name for the Rubiaceae, a family of chiefly tropical and subtropical trees, shrubs, and herbs, especially abundant in N South America. The family is important economically for several tropical crops, e.g., coffee, quinine, and ipecac, and for many ornamentals, e.g.
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