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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024blu•et (blo̅o̅′it),USA pronunciation n. - Plant BiologyUsually, bluets. Also called innocence, Quaker-ladies. any of several North American plants of the genus Houstonia (or Hedyotis), of the madder family, esp. H. caerulea, a low-growing plant having four-petaled blue and white flowers.
- Plant Biologyany of various other plants having blue flowers.
- 1400–50; late Middle English blewet, blewed, variant of Middle English bloweth, blowed (see blue, blae); suffix perh. Old English -et, as in thicket
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