Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several bulbous plants of the genus Hyacinthoides, native to western Europe and northwest Africa and having racemes of usually blue to pink bell-shaped flowers.
- noun Any of various plants of the genus Mertensia, native to Asia, Europe, and North America and having blue, trumpet-shaped flowers.
- noun Any of several other plants having bluish, usually bell-shaped flowers.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The popular name of several different plants: In Scotland, of Campanula rotundifolia, a plant bearing a loose panicle of blue bell-shaped flowers. See
harcbell . - noun In England, of Scilla nutans, the wild hyacinth, from the shape of its drooping flowers.
- noun Of the grape-hyacinth, Muscari botryoides.
- noun Occasionally, of other plants with blue bell-shaped flowers.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A plant of the genus Campanula, especially the
Campanula rotundifolia , which bears blue bell-shaped flowers; the harebell. - noun A plant of the genus Scilla (
Scilla nutans ).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Either of two
flowering plants of thegenus Hyacinthoides, the English bluebell and the Spanish bluebell. - noun A
harebell , Campanula rotundifolia.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun one of the most handsome prairie wildflowers having large erect bell-shaped bluish flowers; of moist places in prairies and fields from eastern Colorado and Nebraska south to New Mexico and Texas
- noun perennial of northern hemisphere with slender stems and bell-shaped blue flowers
- noun sometimes placed in genus Scilla
Etymologies
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Examples
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Late that afternoon the rest of my group returned with a nice catch of fish and we ate well that night – it sure beat chewing on mountain bluebell salad as we had done for the first couple of nights.
March 2004 2004
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The blue wild hyacinth has given name to a colour, not very unlike the violet tint; it is sometimes called the bluebell, but pink ones may be found in woods, and garden hyacinths are of various colours.
Chatterbox, 1906 Various 1873
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The other species is a type of bluebell, which is called “Rain Bells”.
Behind the Scents with Tamya Parfum Ayala Sender 2006
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The other species is a type of bluebell, which is called “Rain Bells”.
Archive 2006-10-01 Ayala Sender 2006
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One: It's more purple than the shades I'm currently enamoured with. .but perhaps, the slightly blue - ish tinge softens it a bit, indeed, the colour could even be described as a bluebell shade of purple.
Irish Blogs 2010
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And this is the person who has the chutzpah to call bluebell an "asshole."
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And this is the person who has the chutzpah to call bluebell an "asshole."
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And this is the person who has the chutzpah to call bluebell an "asshole."
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They have many items, but not everything; no frozen stuff except bluebell which is "local" my son's friend works at HEB and reminded me that they are still on generators and no frozen stuff....
Saturday Stew Holly 2008
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These days, not everyone gets face-time with crocuses and bluebell woods.
Paris fashion week: wardrobe updates Jess Cartner-Morley 2010
jinglebelljosie commented on the word bluebell
flower which represents humility and constancy
February 25, 2009