bluet means any of several different plants, from several genera, having bluish flowers. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 93 out of 100.
bluet is pronounced /bluːɪt/.
Etymology
From Middle English blawede, blewed, blewet, bloued, blowed, bloweth, from Middle English blewe (“blue”). Alternatively, perhaps from Old French bleuet (diminutive of bleu (“blue”)). Compare modern French bleuet (“cornflower”). By surface analysis, blue + -et.
noun
- Any of several different plants, from several genera, having bluish flowers.“My breathing shakes the bluet like a breeze ….”
- Any of several different plants, from several genera, having bluish flowers.; Centaurea, a plant genus in the family Asteraceae
- Any of several different plants, from several genera, having bluish flowers.; Several plant genera in the family Rubiaceae, notably Houstonia and Oldenlandiopsis.
- Any of several small damselfly species, including the genera Coenagrion and Enallagma.
- A kind of blue woolen cloth.“For the Feast of the Assumption, cloth of bluet and of rayed (i.e., striped) scarlet was bought for the robes of the Prince [Edward] and Sir John de Bretagne.”