Bluebell

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  • noun. Any of several bulbous plants of the genus Hyacinthoides, native to western Europe and northwest Africa and having racemes of usually blue to pink bell-shaped flowers.
  • noun. Any of various plants of the genus Mertensia, native to Asia, Europe, and North America and having blue, trumpet-shaped flowers.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. Any of several other plants having bluish, usually bell-shaped flowers.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The popular name of several different plants: In Scotland, of Campanula rotundifolia, a plant bearing a loose panicle of blue bell-shaped flowers. See harcbell.
  • noun. In England, of Scilla nutans, the wild hyacinth, from the shape of its drooping flowers.
  • noun. Of the grape-hyacinth, Muscari botryoides.
  • noun. Occasionally, of other plants with blue bell-shaped flowers.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A plant of the genus Campanula, especially the Campanula rotundifolia, which bears blue bell-shaped flowers; the harebell.
  • noun. A plant of the genus Scilla (Scilla nutans).
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Either of two flowering plants of the genus Hyacinthoides, the English bluebell and the Spanish bluebell.
  • noun. A harebell, Campanula rotundifolia.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. one of the most handsome prairie wildflowers having large erect bell-shaped bluish flowers; of moist places in prairies and fields from eastern Colorado and Nebraska south to New Mexico and Texas
  • noun. perennial of northern hemisphere with slender stems and bell-shaped blue flowers
  • noun. sometimes placed in genus Scilla
  • Word Usage
    "Late that afternoon the rest of my group returned with a nice catch of fish and we ate well that night – it sure beat chewing on mountain bluebell salad as we had done for the first couple of nights."
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