Love-in-a-mist Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun tropical American passion flower with finely dissected bracts; stems malodorous when crushed
    Passiflora foetida; wild water lemon; running pop.
  2. noun chickweed with hairy silver-grey leaves and rather large white flowers
    snow-in-summer; Cerastium tomentosum.
  3. noun European garden plant having finely cut leaves and white or pale blue flowers
    Nigella damascena.

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Definitions
  1. . (Bot.) (a) An herb of the Buttercup family (Nigella Damascena) having the flowers hidden in a maze of finely cut bracts . (b) The West Indian Passiflora foetida, which has similar bracts.

Webster 1913