forget-me-not

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.

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Not is the general declarative form of no, indicating a negative meaning relative to a related statement. Not may refer to:

Not as a negative

During the early 90's there was a fad among teens to use not as a negative. For example person 1: "I can lift 350 pounds without breaking a sweat" person 2: "Not!"

• Logical negation, unary operator in logic
• NOT gate, digital logical gate
• Not!, exclamatory negation or grammatical construction expressing disagreement
• Nordic Optical Telescope
• Scott "NOT" Ian, guitarist for American heavy metal band Anthrax

See also

• Knot (disambiguation)
• NOTs, or "New Era Dianetics for Operating Thetans", a Scientology term