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forget-me-not

UK/fəˈɡɛt.miːˌnɒt/US/fɚˈɡɛt.miˌnɑt/
nounB2neutral

Other forms: forget-me-nots

A forget-me-not is a small plant with pale blue flowers. A bank of forget-me-nots.

The name is the same in French and German, which is unusual and suggests one story behind it. A forget-me-not seeds itself everywhere and is impossible to remove from a border.

Sedum Tauno Erik · CC BY-SA 2.5

Definitions of forget-me-not

  1. 1nounforget-me-notA small plant with pale blue flowers.B2

    “The forget-me-not had taken the whole of one border.”

forget-me-not is a plant.

Where it comes from

A translation of French ne m'oubliez mie or German Vergissmeinnicht.

  1. German

    Vergissmeinnicht

  2. Middle French

    ne m'oubliez mie

  3. English, today

    forget-me-not

Middle French ne m'oubliez mie or German Vergissmeinnicht.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in A Song of Ice and Fire

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