love-in-a-mist

noun

\ ˈləv-ə-nə-ˌmist

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Definition of love-in-a-mist

: an Old World annual herb (Nigella damascena) of the buttercup family having usually blue or white flowers enveloped in numerous finely dissected bracts

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