bluebell (n.)

  1. sometimes placed in genus Scilla

    [ Syn: wild hyacinth , wood hyacinth , harebell , hyacinthoides nonscripta , scilla nonscripta ]

  2. 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

    [ Syn: prairie gentian , tulip gentian , eustoma grandiflorum ]

  3. perennial of northern hemisphere with slender stems and bell-shaped blue flowers

    [ Syn: harebell , campanula rotundifolia ]

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