A forget-me-not is a small plant with tiny blue flowers. a small plant with pale blue flowers. Any of about 50 species of plants that make up the genus Myosotis, in the borage family, native to temperate Eurasia and North America and to mountains of the Old World tropics. Some are favoured as garden plants for their clusters of blue flowers. The woods forget-me-not (M. sylvatica), like most other species, changes colour from pink to blue as the tubular, flaring, five-lobed flower matures
forget me not
Silbentrennung
for·get me not
Türkische aussprache
fôrget mi nät
Aussprache
/fôrˈget ˈmē ˈnät/ /fɔːrˈɡɛt ˈmiː ˈnɑːt/
Etymologie
[ f&r-'get, for- ] (verb.) before 12th century. Middle English, from Old English forgietan, from for- + -gietan.