/blooh"it/ , n.
1. Usually, bluets . Also called innocence, Quaker-ladies . any of several North American plants of the genus Houstonia (or Hedyotis ), of the madder family, esp. H. caerulea, a low-growing plant having four-petaled blue and white flowers.
2. any of various other plants having blue flowers.
[ 1400-50; late ME blewet, blewed, var. of ME bloweth, blowed (see BLUE, BLAE); suffix perh. OE -et, as in THICKET ]