LOVE-IN-A-MIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does love-in-a-mist mean? 

• LOVE-IN-A-MIST (noun)
  The noun LOVE-IN-A-MIST has 3 senses:

1. tropical American passion flower with finely dissected bracts; stems malodorous when crushed

2. chickweed with hairy silver-grey leaves and rather large white flowers

3. European garden plant having finely cut leaves and white or pale blue flowers

  Familiarity information: LOVE-IN-A-MIST used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOVE-IN-A-MIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tropical American passion flower with finely dissected bracts; stems malodorous when crushed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

love-in-a-mist; Passiflora foetida; running pop; wild water lemon

Hypernyms ("love-in-a-mist" is a kind of...):

passionflower; passionflower vine (any of various chiefly tropical American vines some bearing edible fruit)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Chickweed with hairy silver-grey leaves and rather large white flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Cerastium tomentosum; love-in-a-mist; snow-in-summer

Hypernyms ("love-in-a-mist" is a kind of...):

chickweed; clammy chickweed; mouse-ear chickweed; mouse ear; mouse eared chickweed (any of various plants related to the common chickweed)

Sense 3

Meaning:

European garden plant having finely cut leaves and white or pale blue flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

love-in-a-mist; Nigella damascena

Hypernyms ("love-in-a-mist" is a kind of...):

nigella (any plant of the genus Nigella)