Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several annual North American lupines having palmately compound leaves and blue flowers, especially Lupinus texensis, chiefly found in Texas.
- noun A broad, blue woolen cap worn in Scotland.
- noun A person wearing such a cap.
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- noun Any of several
North American species of Lupinus, a kind of flower known for its blue color.
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Examples
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I think we're going to take some pictures in bluebonnet patches afterward - if it doesn't rain.
Wheeeee... reudaly 2002
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The bluebonnet has been the subject of numerous poems, songs, works of fictions, and art.
ArchivesBlogs DRT Library Weblog 2009
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I still remember learning, when I was about ten years old, that the neighborhood grocer's two year old boy had been bitten by a rattler as he reached to pick a bluebonnet, and had died on his way to the hospital.
Puff This! 2008
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A Texas bluebonnet (even though they're not in season until April!) from Lockhart, Texas.
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There were a number of teens who weren't doing wedding dresses, and the bulk of the models present were younger children available for family and youth bluebonnet shots.
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Lupines almost identical to the Texas bluebonnet but growing as bushes 3 to 4 feet tall.
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The Wife had a photo workshop Sunday, a "trash-the-dress" style bridal shoot in a bluebonnet field in Brenham.
Archive 2009-04-01 2009
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Lupines almost identical to the Texas bluebonnet but growing as bushes 3 to 4 feet tall.
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There were a number of teens who weren't doing wedding dresses, and the bulk of the models present were younger children available for family and youth bluebonnet shots.
Archive 2009-04-01 2009
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The Wife had a photo workshop Sunday, a "trash-the-dress" style bridal shoot in a bluebonnet field in Brenham.
reesetee commented on the word bluebonnet
An Australian parrot, the only member of the genus Northiella, whose habitat includes open woodland, scrub, riverine forest, spinifex, and farmlands in the eastern half of the continent, with a smaller race being found in the Western Australian Nullarbor region.
February 26, 2008