Harebell

//ˈhɛəˌbɛl// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A perennial flowering plant, Campanula rotundifolia, native to the Northern Hemisphere, with blue, bell-like flowers.

    "How Snow-drops cold, and blue-eyed Harebells blend / Their tender tears, as o'er the stream they bend […]."

  2. 2
    perennial of Northern Hemisphere with slender stems and bell-shaped blue flowers wordnet
  3. 3
    foxglove

    "I wonder whether the witches would be wearing on their fingers their ornaments of foxglove blossoms, often called witches' bells or harebells, sometimes known as witches' thimbles."

  4. 4
    sometimes placed in genus Scilla wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English harebelle, equivalent to hare + bell.

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