blue·bell (bl  b l ) also blue·bells (-blz)n. 1. Any of several bulbous plants of the genus Hyacinthoides (syn. Endymion) in the lily family, native to western Europe and northwest Africa and having racemes of usually blue to pink bell-shaped flowers. Also called wood hyacinth. 2. Any of numerous plants of the genus Mertensia, native to Asia, Europe, and North America and having blue, trumpet-shaped flowers. 3. See harebell. 4. Any of several other plants having bluish, usually bell-shaped flowers. |
bluebell [ˈbluːˌbɛl]
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1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) Also called wild, wood hyacinth a European liliaceous woodland plant, Hyacinthoides (or Endymion) non-scripta, having a one-sided cluster of blue bell-shaped flowers
2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) Also called Spanish bluebell a similar and related plant, hispanica, widely grown in gardens and becoming naturalized
3. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) a Scot name for harebell
4. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) any of various other plants with blue bell-shaped flowers
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| Noun | 1. |  bluebell - sometimes placed in genus Scilla liliaceous plant - plant growing from a bulb or corm or rhizome or tuber genus Hyacinthoides, Hyacinthoides - small genus of perennial bulbs of western Europe and North Africa; sometimes placed in family Hyacinthaceae |
| 2. |  bluebell - 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 Texaswild flower, wildflower - wild or uncultivated flowering plant Eustoma, genus Eustoma - small genus of herbs of warm regions of southern North America to northern South America | |
| 3. |  bluebell - perennial of northern hemisphere with slender stems and bell-shaped blue flowersbellflower, campanula - any of various plants of the genus Campanula having blue or white bell-shaped flowers |
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