Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A biennial Eurasian plant (Campanula rapunculus) having bell-shaped lilac flowers and an edible root.
- noun Any of various perennial plants of the genus Phyteuma, having dense heads or spikes of bell-shaped blue or violet flowers.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the bellflowers, Campanula Rapunculus, a native of central and southern Europe, formerly much cultivated in gardens for its white tuberous roots, which were used as a salad. More fully garden rampion.
- noun A name of several plants of other genera
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A plant (
Campanula Rapunculus ) of the Bellflower family, with a tuberous esculent root; -- also calledramps .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of several
flowering plants of the genusPhyteuma , within the familyCampanulaceae .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun bellflower of Europe and Asia and North Africa having bluish flowers and an edible tuberous root used with the leaves in salad
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Ah, she replied, if I cant get some of the rampion, which is in the garden behind our house, to eat, I shall die.
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"Ah," she replied, "if I can't get some of the rampion, which is in the garden behind our house, to eat, I shall die."
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'Ah,' she replied, 'if I can't eat some of the rampion, which is in the garden behind our house, I shall die.'
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"Ah," she replied, "if I can't get some of the rampion which is in the garden behind our house, to eat, I shall die."
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“Ah,” she replied, “if I can’t get some of the rampion, which is in the garden behind our house, to eat, I shall die.”
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Or it may be Campanula rapunculus, known in Germany as rampion or Rapunzel-Glockenblume.
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Salad of endive, radish, rampion, and lemon. 104 small plates.
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The Grimms, who were eager to avoid sexual innuendo in their revisions, might have preferred rampion to parsley on account of the herbs 'different popular uses and sought to bury a different story, one uncomfortably close to daily life.
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And in the kitchen-garden at Castlewood no rampion would she allow while she lived.
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The man, who loved her, thought, “Sooner than let thy wife die, bring her some of the rampion thyself, let it cost thee what it will.”
treeseed commented on the word rampion
"Rampion features prominently in some versions of the story of Rapunzel. In the Grimm's brothers' fairy tale 'Rapunzel' it is noted that 'rapunzel' is the name given to a local form of rampion."
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January 25, 2008