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Noun: love-in-a-mist  'lú-vi-nu'mist
  1. Tropical American passion flower with finely dissected bracts; stems malodorous when crushed
    - running pop, wild water lemon, Passiflora foetida
     
  2. Chickweed with hairy silver-grey leaves and rather large white flowers
    - snow-in-summer, Cerastium tomentosum
     
  3. European garden plant having finely cut leaves and white or pale blue flowers
    - Nigella damascena

Derived forms: love-in-a-mists

Type of: chickweed, clammy chickweed, mouse ear, mouse eared chickweed, mouse-ear chickweed, nigella, passionflower, passionflower vine

Encyclopedia: Love-in-a-mist

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