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blue·bell

(blo͞o′bĕl′) also blue·bells (-bĕlz′)

1. Any of several bulbous plants of the genus Hyacinthoides, native to western Europe and northwest Africa and having racemes of usually blue to pink bell-shaped flowers.

2. Any of various plants of the genus Mertensia, native to Asia, Europe, and North America and having blue, trumpet-shaped flowers.

3. See harebell.

4. Any of several other plants having bluish, usually bell-shaped flowers.

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bluebell

(ˈbluːˌbɛl)

1. (Plants) Also called: wild hyacinth or wood hyacinth a European liliaceous woodland plant, Hyacinthoides (or Endymion) non-scripta, having a one-sided cluster of blue bell-shaped flowers

2. (Plants) Also called: Spanish bluebell a similar and related plant, hispanica, widely grown in gardens and becoming naturalized

3. (Plants) a Scot name for harebell

4. (Plants) any of various other plants with blue bell-shaped flowers

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blue•bell

(ˈbluˌbɛl)

n.

1. any of numerous plants of the bellflower family, having blue, bell-shaped flowers, as the harebell.

2. an Old World plant, Endymion nonscriptus, of the lily family, having blue, bell-shaped flowers.

3. any of various other plants having blue flowers of the borage family.

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Noun	1.	bluebell - sometimes placed in genus Scilla harebell, Hyacinthoides nonscripta, Scilla nonscripta, wild hyacinth, wood hyacinth liliaceous plant - plant growing from a bulb or corm or rhizome or tuber genus Hyacinthoides, Hyacinthoides - small genus of perennial bulbs of western Europe and North Africa; sometimes placed in family Hyacinthaceae
	2.	bluebell - 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 Eustoma grandiflorum, prairie gentian, tulip gentian wild flower, wildflower - wild or uncultivated flowering plant Eustoma, genus Eustoma - small genus of herbs of warm regions of southern North America to northern South America
	3.	bluebell - perennial of northern hemisphere with slender stems and bell-shaped blue flowers Campanula rotundifolia, harebell bellflower, campanula - any of various plants of the genus Campanula having blue or white bell-shaped flowers

Translations

jacinthe

campanula giacinto selvatico

grasklokjewilde hyacint

колокольчик

bluebell

[ˈbluːbel] N → campánula f azul (Scot) (= harebell) → campanilla f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

bluebell

[ˈbluːbɛl] n → jacinthe f des bois

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

bluebell

[ˈbluːˌbɛl] n → giacinto dei boschi

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

References in classic literature ?

There's a little flower up yonder, the last bud from the multitude of bluebells that clouded those turf steps in July with a lilac mist.

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Sweet is the scent of the hawthorn, and sweet are the bluebells that hide in the valley, and the heather that blows on the hill.

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The Prince seemed to be the only one who made any pretence at enjoying the beauty of the spring morning, who seemed even to be aware of the warm west wind, the occasional perfume of the hedgeside violets, and the bluebells which stretched like a carpet in and out of the belts of wood.

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'Arthur, darling, run and gather those bluebells,' said she, pointing to some that were gleaming at some distance under the hedge along which we walked.

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These factory girls from Lowell shall mate themselves with the pride of drawing-rooms and literary circles, the bluebells in fashion's nosegay, the Sapphos, and Montagues, and Nortons of the age.

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Right down below the White Horse is a curious deep and broad gully called "the Manger," into one side of which the hills fall with a series of the most lovely sweeping curves, known as "the Giant's Stairs." They are not a bit like stairs, but I never saw anything like them anywhere else, with their short green turf, and tender bluebells, and gossamer and thistle-down gleaming in the sun and the sheep-paths running along their sides like ruled lines.

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George Lashmar Chapin wanted all the bluebells on God's earth that day to eat, and--Sophie adored him in a voice like to the cooing of a dove; so business was delayed.

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THE dispersal sale of the Bluebell herd of Holsteins on behalf of Winston and Jo Jones drew a massive crowd of buyers to a farm in Powys.

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BEAUTIFUL BLUEBELLS I think the beautiful bluebell carpets have lasted longer this year - maybe because of the cold nights - and they were also a little later coming into bloom than previous years.

EXPERT OPINION

TO FIND the white bluebell you need the positive mindset that one will be there according to Echo reader Tobias Gould.

Reader celebrates white bluebell find

The bluebell viewing ceremony was the latest stage in an epic fundraising challenge that has seen trustee Brian Burnie complete 3,000 miles of his two-year, 7,000-mile walk around the entire coastal path of Great Britain and Ireland.

Bluebells helping in the care of patients

The National Trust is one of the most important organisations in the UK for bluebell conservation.