forget-me-not

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

• (General American) IPA^(key): /fɚˈɡɛt.miˌnɑt/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /fəˈɡɛt.miːˌnɒt/

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forget-me-not (plural forget-me-nots)

2. Any of the flowering plants of the genus Myosotis, mostly with a small five-petalled blue flower; a flower from such a plant.
4. A light tint of blue, the color of the flower.

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6. (entomology) Any of various light-blue coloured lycaenid butterflies of the Asian and Australasian genus Catochrysops, especially Catochrysops strabo native to India and Southeast Asia.