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Harebell
//ˈhɛəˌbɛl// noun
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Noun
- 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 perennial of Northern Hemisphere with slender stems and bell-shaped blue flowers wordnet
- 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 sometimes placed in genus Scilla wordnet
Etymology
From Middle English harebelle, equivalent to hare + bell.
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