bluebell

UK: /ˈbluːbɛl/ US: /ˈbluˌbɛl/ ,(blo̅o̅′bel′)

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blue•bell /ˈbluˌbɛl/   n. [countable]

1. Plant Biology a plant having blue, bell-shaped flowers.

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blue•bell  (blo̅o̅′bel′), n. 

1. Plant Biology any of numerous plants of the bellflower family, having blue, bell-shaped flowers, as a bellflower or harebell.
2. Plant Biology Also called wood hyacinth. an Old World plant, Endymion non-scriptus, of the lily family, having blue, bell-shaped flowers.
3. Plant Biology any of various other plants having blue flowers, as those of the genus Mertensia.

• blue + bell¹ 1570–80

blue′belled′, adj. 

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bluebell / ˈbluːˌbɛl/ noun

1. Also called: wild hyacinth, wood hyacinth a European liliaceous woodland plant, Hyacinthoides (or Endymion) non-scripta, having a one-sided cluster of blue bell-shaped flowers
2. Also called: Spanish bluebell a similar and related plant, hispanica, widely grown in gardens and becoming naturalized
3. a Scot name for harebell
4. any of various other plants with blue bell-shaped flowers