Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An annual plant (Nigella damascena) of the buttercup family native to Eurasia and North Africa, having finely dissected leaves and blue or whitish flowers surrounded by numerous threadlike bracts.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The fennel-flower, Nigella damascena. Also called
devil-in-a-bush .
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- noun
Nigella damascena , anannual flowering plant of thegenus Nigella , the blooms of which are generally blue incolour , though also found in shades of pink, white or palepurple .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun European garden plant having finely cut leaves and white or pale blue flowers
- noun tropical American passion flower with finely dissected bracts; stems malodorous when crushed
- noun chickweed with hairy silver-grey leaves and rather large white flowers
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Examples
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At large in the unsustaining air, flew clear over the lawn across the breadth of the garden and fell, Icarian, dazed, among hollyhocks, snapdragons, love-in-a-mist, and stood up uninjured, ready to swing and fly over and over.
Archive 2008-05-01 tanita davis 2008
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At large in the unsustaining air, flew clear over the lawn across the breadth of the garden and fell, Icarian, dazed, among hollyhocks, snapdragons, love-in-a-mist, and stood up uninjured, ready to swing and fly over and over.
The WritingYA Weblog: We Interrupt This Packing To Say: POETRY FRIDAY tanita davis 2008
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The love-in-a-mist however is all over buds and I'm very excited every morning, hoping that one of them will have finally opened.
July 15th, 2006 dame_habonde 2006
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And what better place to fall dazed than love-in-a-mist?
The WritingYA Weblog: We Interrupt This Packing To Say: POETRY FRIDAY tanita davis 2008
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I have lots of nigella love-in-a-mist growing in my garden, and keep thinking I should harvest it, but the seed pods look so pretty as is, and besides it's so easy to just buy it from the indian store.
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Nigella The small, black, angular seed of Nigella sativa, a close Eurasian relative of the common ornamental plant love-in-a-mist, tastes like a milder, more complex version of thyme or oregano, with a hint of caraway.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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Nigella The small, black, angular seed of Nigella sativa, a close Eurasian relative of the common ornamental plant love-in-a-mist, tastes like a milder, more complex version of thyme or oregano, with a hint of caraway.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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I have planted bulbs of a Mentone creeper, love-in-a-mist, heather, sweet peas and canna seeds.
Three Years in Tristan da Cunha Katherine Mary Barrow
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It was a long walk up to the Schatz Alp; there were paths where the pine-trees met overhead, garlanded with wreaths of snow, and the spaces between the wreaths were as blue as love-in-a-mist, an old-fashioned flower that grows in English gardens.
The Dark Tower Phyllis Bottome 1923
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There are few blue flowers, and most of them are small and fragile, like love-in-a-mist and speedwell.
treeseed commented on the word love-in-a-mist
an Old World annual herb (Nigella damascena) of the buttercup family having usually blue or white flowers enveloped in numerous finely dissected bracts
January 24, 2008