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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
forget-me-not
noun
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▪ Far left: Patricia uses a pot of sugar-pink azaleas to complement the garden's perennial forget-me-nots.
▪ Just like the familiar bedding forget-me-not, but perennial and with softer hairless leaves.
▪ Other water-loving species turned up here from time to time also - Mimulus and forget-me-not and Water Speedwell.
▪ Some flowers intensify their colours towards the centre or introduce another shade altogether - forget-me-nots, hollyhocks, bindweed.
▪ Special Amnesty forget-me-not badges were worn to commemorate all the prisoners on whose behalf Amnest was founded.
▪ The leaves are small sprays of silverweed, interspersed with little stems of forget-me-not.
▪ The other picture also has silverweed leaves, with forget-me-nots, potentillas, hydrangeas and daisies.
▪ There were certainly forget-me-nots, violets, white wood anemones, huge numbers of dandelions and some buttercups.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Forget-me-not

Forget-me-not \For*get"-me-not`\, n. [Cf. G. vergissmeinnicht.] (Bot.) A small perennial herb, of the genus Myosotis ( Myosotis scorpiodes, Myosotis palustris, Myosotis incespitosa, etc.), bearing a beautiful bright blue or white flowers, and extensively considered the emblem of fidelity.

Syn: mouse ear, .

Note: Formerly the name was given to the Ajuga Cham[ae]pitus.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
forget-me-not

the flowering plant (Myosotis palustris), 1530s, translating Old French ne m'oubliez mye; in 15c. the flower was supposed to ensure that those wearing it should never be forgotten by their lovers. Similar loan-translations took the name into other languages: German Vergißmeinnicht, Swedish förgätmigej, Hungarian nefelejcs, Czech nezabudka.

Wiktionary
forget-me-not

n. A genus of flowering plants of the genus ''Myosotis'', mostly with a small 5-petalled blue flower.

WordNet
forget-me-not

n. small perennial herb having bright blue or white flowers [syn: mouse ear, Myosotis scorpiodes]

Wikipedia
Forget-Me-Not (annual)

The Forget-Me-Not was an illustrated, British annual published by Rudolph Ackermann. This was the first literary annual in English and it was edited by Frederic Shoberl from its launch in 1822. A junior version appeared in 1828.

Forget-Me-Not (Family Guy)

"Forget-Me-Not" is the seventeenth episode of the tenth season of the animated comedy series Family Guy. The episode originally aired on Fox in the United States on March 18, 2012. In this episode, Peter, Joe, Quagmire and Brian wake up in the hospital and realize their memories have been erased and the city of Quahog has been deserted.

This episode was written by David A. Goodman and directed by Brian Iles.

Forget-Me-Not (video game)

Forget-Me-Not is an iOS arcade game developed by Nyarlu Labs and released on March 22, 2011.

Usage examples of "forget-me-not".

It was beautiful, and unashamedly romantic, and Fran sighed as the saleslady pointed out a tiny bunch of blue forget-me-nots embroidered inside the hem.

That was the day of Souvenirs, Tokens, Forget-me-nots, Bijous, and all that class of showy annuals.

Now I picked the creamy primroses and the nodding bluebells, bright celandine and hidden violets and forget-me-nots like pieces of fallen sky, for no other reason than that they were beautiful.

He walked slowly in his evening pumps up a thin path between columbines and peonies, late tulips, forget-me-nots, and pansies peering up in the dark with queer, monkey faces.

It was festooned with flowers: bluebells and foxgloves and harebells and daffodils, but also with violets and lilies, with tiny crimson dog-roses, pale snowdrops, blue forget-me-nots and a profusion of other flowers Dunstan could not name.

It was styled like an old-fashioned crinoline, the overskirt lifted at the hem, draped and caught with tiny sprigs of forget-me-nots and lilies of the valley.

Also meadow-sweet, meadow-rue, and comfrey of every shade of purple, the water avens and forget-me-not, also that loveliest plant the bog-bean, with trefoil leaves and feathery blossoms.

Beneath them were borders of mixed traditional cottage garden plants--peonies, hollyhocks, delphiniums, forget-me-nots, which seeded themselves and ran half-wild, aquileas, which did the same thing, producing their pretty pink and white flowers, and catmint, which was invariably flattened by next door's fat ginger tom-cat whom she hadn't the heart to evict from his favourite patch of the scented plant.

There was an intensely blue forget-me-not, the petals so suffused with warming anthocyanins that they were nearly purple-the color that the Martian sky would achieve at around 230 millibars, according to Sax's'calculations on the drive to Arena.

There was an intensely blue forget-me-not, the petals so suffused with warming anthocyanins that they were nearly purple—the color that the Martian sky would achieve at around 230 millibars, according to Sax’s calculations on the drive to Arena.

There was an intensely blue forget-me-not, the petals so suffused with warming anthocyanins that they were nearly purple—the color that the Martian sky would achieve at around 230 millibars, according to Sax’s’calculations on the drive to Arena.

Beside the girl lay a shattered vase and aspray of blue-white forget-me-nots.

And in the midst of this rabble, serene as the Virgin Mother in her barnful of shepherds and scabby livestock, one amazing, beautiful thing: a large, oval white platter painted with delicate blue forget-me-nots, bone china, so fine that sunlight passes through it.

She has a knot of soft, crimpy, brown hair with a thread of gray in it, a sunny face with rosy cheeks, and big, kind eyes as blue as forget-me-nots.

In the most forlorn and arid and dismal one of all, where the racked and splintered debris was thickest, where the ancient patches of snow lay against the very path, where the winds blew bitterest and the general aspect was mournfulest and dreariest, and furthest from any suggestion of cheer or hope, I found a solitary wee forget-me-not flourishing away, not a droop about it anywhere, but holding its bright blue star up with the prettiest and gallantest air in the world, the only happy spirit, the only smiling thing, in all that grisly desert.