Definitions
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 alsobluebell .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
perennial flowering plant , Campanula rotundifolia, native to theNorthern 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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Examples
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a kind of harebell more potent than penicillin, growing leaf by leaf, skin by skin. as rapt and as fluid as Isadoran Duncan.
Hugo Schwyzer 2009
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Species to be reintroduced include the harebell (Campanula rotundifolia), oxeye daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare) and sneezewort (Achillea ptarmica).
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The sky is streaked a harebell blue bordered by textual lines of lead-grey clouds around panes of pale amber.
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Nevertheless, the “debate” of whether to have two working parents or one caregiver is one that will likely never be answered satisfactorily. harebell Says:
It Isn’t A “Debate”. It’s A Choice. « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2009
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We are not responsible for what happens outside the sovereign borders of Canada. harebell Says:
The Real Question Is, How Many Of These Protesters Are On Welfare? « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2009
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As Raphael said, you seem to be reading in a different language. harebell Says:
The Schadenfreude Of The Left On Afghanistan « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2009
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“Did the harebell loose her girdle …” would a sea of dashingly beautiful prefab/modular homes still be “beautiful”?
PREFAB FRIDAY: Lovetann Unveils Two New Homes | Inhabitat 2006
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Canalis, an adventure of this kind is swept away like a harebell by
Modeste Mignon 2007
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There were wild – flowers to pluck — the bright red poppy, the gentle harebell, the cowslip, and the rose.
Barnaby Rudge 2007
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On this tundra knoll above the gray cold river are the first flowers of the arctic spring, a large gold-yellow cinquefoil and a harebell of deep midnight blue, grown close together in the moss and tight low heather as if keeping each other company against the elements.
Inside the Endangered Arctic Refuge Matthiessen, Peter 2006
chained_bear commented on the word harebell
"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
yarb commented on the word harebell
Citation on donga.
July 30, 2008
knitandpurl commented on the word harebell
"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