bluet

English

From French bleuet, diminutive of bleu (“blue”).

bluet (plural bluets)

Any of several different plants, from several genera, having bluish flowers.
- 1913, Robert Frost, 'The Vantage Point':
  My breathing shakes the bluet like a breeze [...].
- 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 232:
  They passed undulating fields of wheat speckled with the confetti of poppies and bluets.
1. Centaurea, a plant genus in the family Asteraceae
2. Several plant genera in the family Rubiaceae, notably Houstonia and Oldenlandiopsis.
Any of several small damselfly species, including the genera Coenagrion and Enallagma.