Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun love-in-a-mist
3 senses of love-in-a-mist
Sense 1
love-in-a-mist, running pop, wild water lemon, Passiflora foetida -- (tropical American passion flower with finely dissected bracts; stems malodorous when crushed)
=> passionflower, passionflower vine -- (any of various chiefly tropical American vines some bearing edible fruit)
Sense 2
snow-in-summer, love-in-a-mist, Cerastium tomentosum -- (chickweed with hairy silver-grey leaves and rather large white flowers)
=> mouse-ear chickweed, mouse eared chickweed, mouse ear, clammy chickweed, chickweed -- (any of various plants related to the common chickweed)
Sense 3
love-in-a-mist, Nigella damascena -- (European garden plant having finely cut leaves and white or pale blue flowers)
=> nigella -- (any plant of the genus Nigella)