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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 flowers
Familiarity information: BLUE-EYED MARY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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