Bluets

Word BLUETS
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Hyphenation blu ets
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Definitions and meanings of "Bluets"

What do we mean by bluets?

Any of several herbs of the genus Houstonia, especially the low-growing H. caerulea of eastern North America, having blue or white flowers with yellow centers. noun plural

A name given to several different species of plants having blue flowers, as the Houstonia cœrulea, the Centaurea cyanus or bluebottle, and the Vaccinium angustifolium. noun

Plural form of bluet. noun

Any of several different plants having blue flowers from several genera.

Common name for several small damselfly species, including the genera Coenagrion and Enallagma.

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The word "bluets" in example sentences

Tolerance, gratitude, appreciation blossomed frailly; and over all there spread, like those hosts of four-petaled flowers we used to call bluets, which grew in such abundance among rarer violets or wild strawberry -- there spread through Ruth's awakened nature a thousand and one little kindly impulses that had to do with smiles for servants, kind words for old people, and courtesy to clerks in shops. ❋ Olive Higgins Prouty (1928)

American plants, such as bluets, or Quaker ladies, small blue spring flowers, common to open meadows in northern United States; and partridge berries (_Mitchella repens_). ❋ Unknown (1909)

Having no provisions with us we were obliged for the first few days to eat what we could find in the woods, such as certain little blue berries that they call "bluets," and other wild fruits, which the people of the country despise. ❋ Father Vincent De Paul (1810)

I am a great fan of bluets from north of the border, as well. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And the trillium and bluets he had picked first, two weeks ago on the first day of the new hobby. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Blueberries are myrtilles in France today but bluets in Quebec, as they were in the writings of Champlain. ❋ David Hackett Fischer (2008)

That usage was standard during the early seventeenth century, but is now archaic in Paris, where bluets have become French cornflowers. ❋ David Hackett Fischer (2008)

Bunchberry, bluets, and blue flag blooming by the roadside, plus a verification of the wild calla in the bog. ❋ Jhetley (2007)

Here is a photo from May Day--bluets and moss and last year's grass ❋ Asakiyume (2007)

It was a beautiful day, the meadows peppered with dandelions and bluets. ❋ Carole Fletcher (2005)

But there was evidence of the tiny flower known as Shatter Ice — four little bluets in a nest of the tiniest emerald leaves — which meant the hump of the winter had been passed, and spring, however long it took to arrive, had started on its way. ❋ Maguire, Gregory (2005)

Once I had to circle back for Hannah, who was conducting an inspection tour of bluets and lilies of the valley. ❋ William F. Weld (2002)

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