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bluebell (n.)

also blue-bell, popular name of various plants with flowers blue and more or less bell-shaped, 1570s, from blue (adj.1) + bell (n.).

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Definitions of bluebell from WordNet

bluebell (n.)
sometimes placed in genus Scilla;
Synonyms: wild hyacinth / wood hyacinth / harebell / Hyacinthoides nonscripta / Scilla nonscripta
bluebell (n.)
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;
Synonyms: prairie gentian / tulip gentian / Eustoma grandiflorum
bluebell (n.)
perennial of northern hemisphere with slender stems and bell-shaped blue flowers;
Synonyms: harebell / Campanula rotundifolia
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