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Definition of Bells of Ireland
1. Noun. Aromatic annual with a tall stems of small whitish flowers enclosed in a greatly enlarged saucer-shaped or bell-shaped calyx.
Generic synonyms: Herb, Herbaceous Plant
Group relationships: Genus Molucella, Molucella
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bells Of Ireland
Literary usage of Bells of Ireland
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Church Bells of Rutland: Their Inscriptions, Traditions, and Peculiar by Thomas North (1880)
"HT Ellacombe, FSA In the year 1833 Dr. Petrie read before the Royal Irish Academy
an Essay on the Ancient Consecrated bells of Ireland. ..."
2. The Church Bells of Northamptonshire: Their Inscriptions, Traditions, and by Thomas North (1878)
"HT Ellacombe, FSA In the year 1833 Dr. Petrie read before the Royal Irish Academy
an Essay on the Ancient Consecrated Bells, of Ireland. ..."
3. Genuine History of Ireland ... Since the Reformation by Hugh Reilly (1838)
"... standard was then first displayed upon Bedford Tower, Dublin Castle and those
bells rung, which every patriot considered as the dead-bells of Ireland. ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1850)
"cried Cormack ; " by all the bells of Ireland! I'd rather have the little finger
of that stately noble lady, than a cartload of the pick of all the rest of ..."
5. Irish Druids and Old Irish Religions by James Bonwick (1894)
"Holy bells of Ireland are of distinct Buddhist shape, being of an irregular
cylindrical form, as in India, &c., and not round as in Christian lands. ..."
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