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Love-in-a-mist   /ləv-ɪn-ə-mɪst/   Listen
Love-in-a-mist

noun
1.
Tropical American passion flower with finely dissected bracts; stems malodorous when crushed.  Synonyms: Passiflora foetida, running pop, wild water lemon.
2.
Chickweed with hairy silver-grey leaves and rather large white flowers.  Synonyms: Cerastium tomentosum, snow-in-summer.
3.
European garden plant having finely cut leaves and white or pale blue flowers.  Synonym: Nigella damascena.






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"Love-in-a-mist" Quotes from Famous Books



... and without separation before him—it was a miraculous dawdle, more wonderful than those on the Downs, or along the river Thames. It was love-in-a-mist—one of those illumined pages of Life, where every word and smile, and every light touch they gave each other were as little gold and red and blue butterflies and flowers and birds scrolled in among the text—a happy communing, without afterthought, ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy

... butter," while one of the popular names for the mandrake is "devil's food." The hare-parsley supplies him with oatmeal, and the stichwort is termed in the West of England "devil's corn." Among further plants associated with his Satanic majesty may be enumerated the garden fennel, or love-in-a-mist, to which the name of "devil-in-a-bush" has been applied, while the fruit of the deadly nightshade is commonly designated "devil's berries." Then there is the "devil's tree," and the "devil's dung" is one of the nicknames of the assafoetida. The hawk-weed, like the scabious, was termed "devil's ...
— The Folk-lore of Plants • T. F. Thiselton-Dyer



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