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harebell

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hare·bell  (hârbl)
n.
A perennial plant (Campanula rotundifolia) having slender stems, dense clusters of basal leaves, and bell-shaped blue or white flowers. Also called bluebell.
harebell [ˈhɛəˌbɛl]
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) a N temperate campanulaceous plant, Campanula rotundifolia, having slender stems and leaves, and bell-shaped pale blue flowers Also called (in Scotland) bluebell
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Noun1.harebellharebell - sometimes placed in genus Scilla    
bluebell, Hyacinthoides nonscripta, Scilla nonscripta, wild hyacinth, wood hyacinth
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.harebellharebell - perennial of northern hemisphere with slender stems and bell-shaped blue flowers
Campanula rotundifolia, bluebell
bellflower, campanula - any of various plants of the genus Campanula having blue or white bell-shaped flowers
Translations
harebell [ˈhɛəbel] N → campánula f
harebell [ˈhɛəˌbɛl] n → campanella scozzese
harebell [ˈhɛəˌbɛl] n → campanella scozzese


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The pliant harebell swinging in the breeze, On some grey rock: The single sheep, and the one blasted tree, And the bleak music from that old stone wall:-- In the meadows and the lower ground, Was all the sweetness of a common dawn:-- And that green corn all day is rustling in thine ears!
The Guardian by Pater, Walter Horatio View in context
There were wild-flowers to pluck--the bright red poppy, the gentle harebell, the cowslip, and the rose.
Barnaby Rudge - A Tale Of The Riots Of 'Eighty by Dickens, Charles View in context
It nodded like a wind-blown harebell down the valleys and round the mountain sides, and in due time the lama and Kim, who steered by compass, would overhaul it, vending ointments and powders at eventide.
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