Meaning of BLUEBELL
| Pronunciation: | | 'bloo`bel
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- [n] perennial of northern hemisphere with slender stems and bell-shaped blue flowers
- [n] one of the most handsome prairie wildflowers laving large erect bell-shaped bluish flowers; of moist places in prairies and fields from eastern Colorado and Nebraska south to New Mexico and Texas
- [n] sometimes placed in genus Scilla
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| | Synonyms: | | Campanula rotundifolia, Eustoma grandiflorum, harebell, Hyacinthoides nonscripta, prairie gentian, Scilla nonscripta, tulip gentian, wild hyacinth, wood hyacinth |
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| | See Also: | | bellflower, campanula, Eustoma, genus Eustoma, genus Hyacinthoides, Hyacinthoides, liliaceous plant, wild flower, wildflower | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Blue"bell`\, n. (Bot.)
(a) A plant of the genus {Campanula}, especially the
{Campanula rotundifolia}, which bears blue bell-shaped
flowers; the harebell.
(b) A plant of the genus {Scilla} ({Scilla nutans}).
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