bluet
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English
Etymology
From French bleuet, diminutive of bleu (“blue”).
Noun
bluet (plural bluets)
- Any of several different plants, from several genera, having bluish flowers.
- 1913, Robert Frost, 'The Vantage Point':
- My breathing shakes the bluet like a breeze .
- 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 232:
- They passed undulating fields of wheat speckled with the confetti of poppies and bluets.
- Centaurea, a plant genus in the family Asteraceae
- Several plant genera in the family Rubiaceae, notably Houstonia and Oldenlandiopsis.
- 1913, Robert Frost, 'The Vantage Point':
- Any of several small damselfly species, including the genera Coenagrion and Enallagma.
