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n. - Any of a genus of annual herbs of the waterleaf family chiefly of western North America that are cultivated for their showy blue or white sometimes spotted flowers

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Usage examples (3)
  • 'We can get some seeds of different annuals, such as nemophila and candytuft, ourselves.
  • And there was always mignonette and nemophila in window-boxes, so sweet in the evening air?
  • A tiny stream ran down the tiny valley through a tiny meadow that was carpeted knee-high with grass and blue and white nemophila.
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