Noun: love-in-a-mist 'lú-vi-nu'mist
- European garden plant having finely cut leaves and white or pale blue flowers
"Love-in-a-mist flowers are surrounded by delicate, feathery foliage";
- Nigella damascena
- Tropical American passion flower with finely dissected bracts; stems malodorous when crushed
"The love-in-a-mist's delicate flowers belied its unpleasant smell";
- running pop, wild water lemon, Passiflora foetida
- Chickweed with hairy silver-grey leaves and rather large white flowers
"love-in-a-mist cascaded over the rock wall";
- snow-in-summer, Cerastium tomentosum
Derived forms: love-in-a-mists
Type of: chickweed, clammy chickweed, mouse ear, mouse eared chickweed, mouse-ear chickweed, nigella, passionflower, passionflower vine
Encyclopedia: Love-in-a-mist