Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various herbs of the genus Campanula, native chiefly to the Northern Hemisphere and having bell-shaped, usually violet or blue flowers.
- noun Any of various other plants with bell-shaped flowers.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A plant of the genus Campanula; -- so named from its bell-shaped flowers.
- noun A kind of apple. The yellow bellflower is a large, yellow winter apple.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A common name for flowering
plants in any of thegenera Campanula , Campanulastrum,Codonopsis , or Platycodon. - noun A
flower of one of these plants, which is shaped like abell .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of various plants of the genus Campanula having blue or white bell-shaped flowers
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Examples
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Family matters: Cardinal flower belongs to the plant family Campanulaceae, a group of species commonly referred to as the bellflower family.
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Count the birds, notice the small blossoms just budding along the streambanks: gentian, violet crocus, bellflower.
Cato's Dog Was Right W.F. Lantry 2011
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Is this what it takes to win the healthcare battle? esther, bellflower, california
Beat 360° 9/16/2009 2009
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He, too, made his farewells, and one by one the others left until only Kate Pulaski remained, carefully picking up the bellflower.
The Beast That Resembles A Poem(A Handy Resource for Architects,Engineers, and Students) 2010
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They stopped before Pulaski's door, and she took the bellflower from him.
The Beast That Resembles A Poem(A Handy Resource for Architects,Engineers, and Students) 2010
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But the real true blue rings from the nettle-leaved bellflower in hedges along the Edge and harebells – tiny up on Windmill Hill but big and bold along the verges of tracks on Stapeley Common and the Stiperstones.
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We wended our way between hedgerows and verges bright with crane's bill and bellflower, past poppy-flecked fields of ripening wheat, heading for columns of smoke that billowed from the fields at Low Burton.
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A product of the holodeck, the artificial bellflower would seem as real and solid and beautiful as a naturally grown plant with one exception-it would last forever.
The Beast That Resembles A Poem(A Handy Resource for Architects,Engineers, and Students) 2010
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Rindo $75, the signature Kenzo Estate wine, is a Bordeaux varietal that nods to California reds and the rindo, a Japanese bellflower that blooms around the time of harvest.
Marie Elena Martinez: 2010's Must-Visit Napa Winery: Kenzo Estate Marie Elena Martinez 2010
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Therefore, unable to choose a gift with personal significance, he had opted for something he knew to be universally admired: a bellflower from Artemis Three, or as close as he could come to reproducing one.
The Beast That Resembles A Poem(A Handy Resource for Architects,Engineers, and Students) 2010
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