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Bluebell
//ˈbluˌbɛl// noun
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Noun
- 1 Various flowering plants with blue, usually pendulous, flowers.; In genus Hyacinthoides; common bluebell (Hyacinthoides non-scripta)
- 2 perennial of Northern Hemisphere with slender stems and bell-shaped blue flowers wordnet
- 3 Various flowering plants with blue, usually pendulous, flowers.; In genus Hyacinthoides; Spanish bluebell (Hyacinthoides hispanica)
- 4 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 wordnet
- 5 Various flowering plants with blue, usually pendulous, flowers.; In genus Hyacinthoides; Italian bluebell (Hyacinthoides italica)
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- 6 sometimes placed in genus Scilla wordnet
- 7 Various flowering plants with blue, usually pendulous, flowers.; In other genera; grape hyacinth (Muscari)
- 8 Various flowering plants with blue, usually pendulous, flowers.; In other genera; Virginia bluebell (Mertensia virginica) plural-normally
- 9 Various flowering plants with blue, usually pendulous, flowers.; In other genera; Scottish bluebell (harebell) (Campanula rotundifolia)
"The cutting sides were gay with heather in bloom, and masses of dainty Scots bluebells, while patches of clear sky overhead were bringing life and colour to the sea."
- 10 Various flowering plants with blue, usually pendulous, flowers.; In other genera; Australian royal bluebell (Wahlenbergia gloriosa)
- 11 Various flowering plants with blue, usually pendulous, flowers.; In other genera; Texas bluebell (Eustoma russellianum)
- 12 Various flowering plants with blue, usually pendulous, flowers.; In other genera; desert bluebell or California bluebell (Phacelia campanularia)
Etymology
From blue + bell.
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