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forget-me-not (iou)



forget-me-not noun. M16.
[translating Old French ne m'oubliez mie: cf. Middle High German vergi min nicht (German Vergissmeinnicht). In the 15th cent. worn as a lover's token.]
Any of various low-growing plants of the genus Myosotis, of the borage family; esp. M. scorpioides, which has bright blue flowers with a yellow centre; a flowering stem of such a plant. Also (locally or with specifying word), any of various (cultivated ornamental) plants resembling these, usu. with small, bright blue flowers. M16.
Alpine forget-me-not (a) any of various mountain plants of the genus Myosotis, esp. M. alpestris; (b) N. Amer. any of several plants of the Rocky Mountains of the genus Eritrichium, of the borage family. Cape forget-me-not a plant of the borage family native to southern Africa, Anchusa capensis. Chinese forget-me-not a hound's tongue, Cynoglossum amabile, native to eastern Asia.
The ground pine, Ajuga chamaepitys. Only in L16.
Comb.: forget-me-not blue (of) a clear bright blue.
? Rare before E19.