forget-me-not

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Forget-me-not

Etymology[edit]

Calque of Middle French ne m'oubliez mie.

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Noun[edit]

forget-me-not (plural forget-me-nots)

  1. Any of the flowering plants of the genus Myosotis, mostly with a small five-petalled blue flower.
  2. A light tint of blue, the color of the flower.
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  3. (entomology) Any of various light-blue coloured lycaenid butterflies of the Asian and Australasian genus Catochrysops, especially Catochrysops strabo native to India and Southeast Asia.

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