bluebell
In genus HyacinthoidesIn genus Hyacinthoides: Common bluebell (Hyacinthoides non-scripta)
» There's a carpet of bluebells flowering in the wood.
Im Wald blüht ein Teppich aus Glockenblumen.
Meaning
9 sensesIn genus Hyacinthoides
Common bluebell (Hyacinthoides non-scripta)
Spanish bluebell (Hyacinthoides hispanica)
Italian bluebell (Hyacinthoides italica)
In other genera
Grape hyacinth (Muscari)
(usually plural)Virginia bluebell (Mertensia virginica)
Scottish bluebell (harebell) (Campanula rotundifolia)
колоко́льчикkolokólʹčik
Australian royal bluebell (Wahlenbergia gloriosa)
Texas bluebell (Eustoma russellianum)
Desert bluebell or California bluebell (Phacelia campanularia)
- perennial of Northern Hemisphere with slender stems and bell-shaped blue flowers
- 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
- sometimes placed in genus Scilla
Examples
1 sentencesThere's a carpet of bluebells flowering in the wood.
deIm Wald blüht ein Teppich aus Glockenblumen. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Translations
4 languagesBy meaning 1
Origin
From blue + bell.From blue + bell.
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Forms
plural: bluebellsSynonyms
9 synonyms- perennial of Northern Hemisphere with slender stems and bell-shaped blue flowers:harebellCampanula rotundifolia
- 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:prairie gentiantulip gentianEustoma grandiflorum
- sometimes placed in genus Scilla:wild hyacinthwood hyacinthharebellHyacinthoides nonscriptaScilla nonscripta