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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A perennial plant (Campanula rotundifolia) having slender stems, dense clusters of basal leaves, and bell-shaped blue or white flowers.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A species of bell-flower, Campanula rotundifolia, the well-known bluebell of Scotland.
  • noun The wild hyacinth, Scilla nutans, or Hyacinthus non-scriptus.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) A small, slender, branching plant (Campanula rotundifolia), having blue bell-shaped flowers; also, Scilla nutans, which has similar flowers; -- called also bluebell.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

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

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun sometimes placed in genus Scilla
  • noun perennial of northern hemisphere with slender stems and bell-shaped blue flowers

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  • "This was the very center of the island—a land of bottomless ponds and rushing black brooks, barrens and bog that stretched away . . . like blankets of Scottish tweed. Here, the pine and spruce stands were a dark, majestic green and seemed to go on forever. The fireweed was like purple smoke in the distance. The soft forest floors were thick with lady ferns and harebells and bunchberries and pink tops. The air was sweet with bog rosemary and cranberry patches and Labrador tea."

    —David Macfarlane, The Danger Tree, 48

    May 6, 2008

  • Citation on donga.

    July 30, 2008

  • "With the other children, I would run off and play among the harebells along the old sentry path. A mass of rubble, really, but the pillar of my enchanted world."

    The Last Rendezvous by Anne Plantagenet, translated by Willard Wood, p 17

    June 5, 2010