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noun
Various flowering plants with blue, usually pendulous, flowers.
In genus Hyacinthoides
common bluebell (Hyacinthoides non-scripta)
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noun
Various flowering plants with blue, usually pendulous, flowers.
In genus Hyacinthoides
Spanish bluebell (Hyacinthoides hispanica)
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noun
Various flowering plants with blue, usually pendulous, flowers.
In genus Hyacinthoides
Italian bluebell (Hyacinthoides italica)
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noun
Various flowering plants with blue, usually pendulous, flowers.
In other genera
grape hyacinth (Muscari)
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noun
Various flowering plants with blue, usually pendulous, flowers.
In other genera
Virginia bluebell (Mertensia virginica)
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Usage: plural-normally
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noun
Various flowering plants with blue, usually pendulous, flowers.
In other genera
Scottish bluebell (harebell) (Campanula rotundifolia)
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noun
Various flowering plants with blue, usually pendulous, flowers.
In other genera
Australian royal bluebell (Wahlenbergia gloriosa)
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noun
Various flowering plants with blue, usually pendulous, flowers.
In other genera
Texas bluebell (Eustoma russellianum)
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noun
Various flowering plants with blue, usually pendulous, flowers.
In other genera
desert bluebell or California bluebell (Phacelia campanularia)
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noun
perennial of northern hemisphere with slender stems and bell-shaped blue flowers
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: harebell, Campanula rotundifolia
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Broader terms: campanula, bellflower
noun
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 Texas
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: prairie gentian, tulip gentian, Eustoma grandiflorum
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Broader terms: wildflower, wild flower
noun
sometimes placed in genus Scilla
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: wild hyacinth, wood hyacinth, harebell, Hyacinthoides nonscripta, Scilla nonscripta
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Broader terms: liliaceous plant
History
From blue + bell.
Across languages
26 source translations are retained for this English entry.
