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BLUE-EYED MARY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blue-eyed Mary mean? 

BLUE-EYED MARY (noun)
  The noun BLUE-EYED MARY has 1 sense:

1. eastern United States plant with whorls of blue-and-white flowersplay

  Familiarity information: BLUE-EYED MARY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BLUE-EYED MARY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Eastern United States plant with whorls of blue-and-white flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

blue-eyed Mary; Collinsia verna

Hypernyms ("blue-eyed Mary" is a kind of...):

wild flower; wildflower (wild or uncultivated flowering plant)

Holonyms ("blue-eyed Mary" is a member of...):

Collinsia; genus Collinsia (genus of hardy annual herbs of western United States)


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