forget-me-not

Meaning

  1. Any of the flowering plants of the genus Myosotis, mostly with a small five-petalled blue flower; a flower from such a plant.
  2. A light tint of blue, the color of the flower.
  3. Any of various light-blue coloured lycaenid butterflies of the Asian and Australasian genus Catochrysops, especially Catochrysops strabo native to India and Southeast Asia.

Synonyms

mouse ear

Myosotis scorpiodes

scorpion grass

Pronounced as (IPA)
/fɚˈɡɛt.miˌnɑt/
Etymology

Calque of Middle French ne m'oubliez mie or German Vergissmeinnicht.

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