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Definition of Myosotis
1. Noun. Forget-me-nots; scorpion grass.
Generic synonyms: Plant Genus
Group relationships: Borage Family, Boraginaceae, Family Boraginaceae
Member holonyms: Garden Forget-me-not, Myosotis Sylvatica, Forget-me-not, Mouse Ear, Myosotis Scorpiodes
Definition of Myosotis
1. n. A genus of plants. See Mouse- ear.
Definition of Myosotis
1. Noun. (qualifier botany) A plant of the genus ''Myosotis'', the forget-me-nots. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Myosotis
1. a flowering plant [n -TISES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Myosotis
Literary usage of Myosotis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse by Edward Step (1897)
"E. Genus myosotis myosotis (Greek, mus, a mouse, and otis, an ear ; from the
shape of the leaves). A genus including about thirty species of hardy annual ..."
2. Paxton's Flower Garden by John Lindley, Sir Joseph Paxton (1853)
"Stem decumbent, myosotis AZORICA ; caule basi ... myosotis azorica : II. C.
Watson, in Bot. Mag., t. 4122. ..."
3. A Botanical Materia Medica by Jonathan Stokes (1812)
"Ger. by Johns. 338, . cop. in M. scorpioides hirsuta. Park, theatr. 691.
myosotis scorpioides arvensis. Caste % If'ilfe- met in med. comment, v. 298. ..."
4. English Botany, Or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with Their Essential by James Edward Smith, James Sowerby (1814)
"The long slender stalks of the radical leaves afford another striking distinctive
mark.—We have from M. Villars a specimen of this myosotis, by which it ..."
5. American Observer Medical Monthly (1874)
"Mr. Editor:—Let me say a word for myosotis in the East. ... When I received pure
myosotis tincture, I began to give her the first decimal attenuation, ..."
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