#blue
- Acrocyanosis — A chronic, painless peripheral circulatory disorder characterized by a persistent bluish or livid discoloration of the body's extremities, accompanied by cold sweat and local hypothermia.
- Aeonium haworthii — A species of succulent plant in the family Crassulaceae, commonly known as Haworth's aeonium or pinwheeleonium. It is structurally characterized by woody, erect, and highly branched stems bearing compact rosettes of bluish-green leaves, featuring ciliate margins that often turn bright red when exposed to direct sunlight.
- Bilberry (regional) — An archaic regional variant within Romanian dialects utilized to denote the bilberry or blueberry plant (Vaccinium myrtillus). Formally preserved in early lexicographical registers, it has been systematically replaced by the standardized form 'afin'.
- Bilberry bush — A rare regional Romanian term used to designate a single bilberry bush or a localized wild patch covered entirely with such shrubs. In regional dialectal lexicons, it serves as a traditional geographic indicator for high-altitude zones rich in wild blueberries.
- Bilberry patch — A regional collective Romanian term used to designate a place, meadow, or mountain slope covered entirely with bilberry shrubs; a blueberry patch. In traditional forestry lexicons, the word indicates dense plant associations colonizing acidic soils.
- Tiny bilberry — An affectionate diminutive or regional Romanian term used to designate a small, round, and well-ripened bilberry fruit. The term belongs to popular folklore and dialectal lexicons used by mountain communities for tiny, sweet hand-picked forest berries.
- Bilberry heath — A compact plant formation, mountain meadow, or clearing completely covered by wild bilberry shrubs (Vaccinium myrtillus). These heathlands are specific to acidic soils and cool climates in subalpine zones, serving as a crucial ecological habitat and a major foraging area.
- Agathaea — An archaic scientific name or taxonomic synonym for the plant genus Felicia, belonging to the Asteraceae family and native to South Africa, popularly known as the blue daisy. Structurally, these plants are characterized by capitulum (head) inflorescences featuring yellow central tubular florets and deep azure-blue peripheral ray florets, utilized in horticulture as ornamental groundcover species.
- Ageratum houstonianum — A species of annual herbaceous plant in the genus Ageratum, native to Central America and Mexico, widely cultivated globally as an ornamental border plant. It is noted for its compact mounds and dense capituliform inflorescences, with the flower heads resembling blue, lavender, pink, or white floss-like tufts, highly valued in urban landscape design.
- Ahmet — A Turkish phonetic variant of the Arabic masculine proper name Ahmad, meaning 'the praised one'. In world history, the name was borne by three major sultans of the Ottoman Empire, including Ahmed I (the founder of the famous Blue Mosque in Istanbul) and Ahmed III, the central figure of the Tulip Period, being a highly widespread structural given name.
- Ajuga genevensis — A species of perennial herbaceous flowering plant in the mint family Lamiaceae, commonly known as Geneva bugle, blue bugleweed, or standing bugle. It features erect, hairy stems, coarsely toothed leaves, and dense spikes of vibrant blue to violet flowers; unlike Ajuga reptans, it does not produce creeping stolons, growing natively in dry meadows, forest edges, and scrublands.
- Ajuga reptans — A species of perennial herbaceous flowering plant in the mint family Lamiaceae, commonly known as creeping bugle, carpet bugle, or bugleweed. It is famous for its long, creeping above-ground stolons that allow it to spread rapidly, creating dense vegetative carpets, and for its deep blue labiate flowers arranged in erect spikes; it is widely utilized in horticulture as an effective ground cover and valued in traditional herbal medicine for its astringent and wound-healing properties.
- White-and-blue — Combining, associating, or alternating the colors white and blue; presenting stripes, checks, or geometric patterns formed by these two shades. In a social and sports context, the term describes the official identification colors of traditional football clubs, sports associations, or human administrative communities.
- Blue — Feminine singular form for the adjective 'albastru'; having the color of the clear sky on a cloudless day or of the deep sea, located in the luminous spectrum between green and violet. In a figurative, stylistic, or poetic sense, the term describes abstract elements such as serene nostalgia, ideal purity, nobility of blood, or melancholic states.
- Blue — Feminine plural form of the adjective 'albastru'; it describes several feminine objects, entities, flowers, or beings having the color of the clear sky or the deep sea. In literature and arts, it is frequently used to evoke visual elements of nature, clothing items, or aesthetic concepts based on cold shades.
- Cornflower — An annual or biennial herbaceous plant of the Asteraceae family (Centaurea cyanus), with a fibrous and branched stem, narrow leaves, and flowers grouped in flower heads of an intense blue color, which usually grows as a weed in cereal fields (wheat, rye); cornflower. In traditional phytotherapy and cosmetics, infusions of its dried flowers are recognized for their anti-inflammatory, soothing, and astringent properties, being used especially for eye care.
- Bluing — The state of being blue; the appearance of a bluish tint on a surface or the act of coloring something blue. In traditional households, it refers to a coloring substance (based on ultramarine or indigo) dissolved in water and used when washing white linens to prevent yellowing, or when whitewashing house walls. In forestry and the wood industry, the term denotes a structural defect (parasitic coloration of softwood in bluish-gray shades) caused by microscopic fungi, without affecting its core mechanical strength.
- Bluish — Of a light, pale, or delicate blue; slightly bluish. As a masculine noun, it represents the popular name given to the small butterfly of the Lycaenidae family (Polyommatus Icarus), whose wings in males have a bright azure color, or to the small river fish species commonly known as the European bitterling.
- The blues — Masculine plural form for the adjective 'albastru'; it describes several masculine elements, objects, or beings having the color of the clear sky or the deep sea. As a plural masculine noun (substantivized), the term directly denotes in journalistic and sports language the players, athletes, or supporters of a team whose official colors include this spectral shade.
- Blueness — A collective or abstract noun denoting a large expanse of blue color or the totality of azure elements within a visual perimeter; the reflected blueness of the sky or sea. In poetic and literary language, the term evokes the immensity of the celestial space, the depth of oceanic waters, or a melancholic atmosphere dominated by cold tones.