forget-me-notnoun [ C ]
uk/fəˈɡet.mi.nɒt/us/fɚˈɡet.mi.nɑːt/a small garden plant with blue or pink flowers that grows from seed every year
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Flowers & flowering plants
- anemone
- antirrhinum
- aster
- aubretia
- begonia
- catkin
- delphinium
- dogwood
- evening primrose
- forsythia
- foxglove
- narcissus
- nasturtium
- oleander
- orchid
- pansy
- posy
- wild flower
- wisteria
- woodbine
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Examples from literature
- From beneath her mantle she drew a little bunch of forget-me-nots, and dropped them in upon the coffin.
- No distance or time could rob him of the remembrance of that night at the opera—the scent of white rose—her look as she gave him the forget-me-nots.
- Ox-eye daisies, hollyhocks and forget-me-nots clustered about the open windows.
- They tell me that the bit of ground over in Belgium called Waterloo bears each spring a crop of rare blue forget-me-nots.
- Under his feet was a crush of forget-me-nots and of white and purple violets, their sweet perfume filling his lungs as he breathed.