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hare·bell

 (hâr′bĕl′)
n.
A perennial plant (Campanula rotundifolia) having slender stems, dense clusters of basal leaves, and bell-shaped blue or white flowers. Also called bluebell.
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harebell

(ˈhɛəˌbɛl)
n
(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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hare•bell

(ˈhɛərˌbɛl)

n.
a low plant, Campanula rotundifolia, of the bellflower family, having narrow leaves and blue, bell-shaped flowers.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.harebell - sometimes placed in genus Scillaharebell - 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.harebell - perennial of northern hemisphere with slender stems and bell-shaped blue flowersharebell - 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
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Translations

harebell

[ˈhɛəbel] N → campánula f
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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!
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I lingered round them, under that benign sky: watched the moths fluttering among the heath and harebells, listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass, and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth.
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