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Definition of Bluebell

1. Noun. Sometimes placed in genus Scilla.

2. Noun. 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.

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

Definition of Bluebell

1. n. A plant of the genus Campanula, especially the Campanula rotundifolia, which bears blue bell-shaped flowers; the harebell.

Definition of Bluebell

1. Noun. Either of two flowering plants of the genus ''Hyacinthoides'', the English bluebell and the Spanish bluebell. ¹

2. Noun. A harebell, ''Campanula rotundifolia''. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Bluebell

1. a flowering plant [n -S]

Medical Definition of Bluebell

1. A plant of the genus Campanula, especially the Campanula rotundifolia, which bears blue bell-shaped flowers; the harebell. A plant of the genus Scilla (Scilla nutans). Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bluebell

blue water blue waters blue whale blue whales blue white colour selection blue wildebeest blueback blueback salmon bluebacks bluebag

blueball bluebeards bluebeat bluebeats bluebell (current term) bluebells blueberries blueberry blueberry bush blueberry muffin baby

blueberry muffin sign blueberry pie blueberry root blueberry yogurt blueberrying blueberrylike bluebill bluebills bluebird

Literary usage of Bluebell

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Daytrips London by Earl Steinbicker (2003)
"Trip 2O bluebell The glorious Age of Steam is alive and well on the ... No mere amusement, the bluebell was a working standard-gauge branch line from 1882 ..."

2. The Professor by Charlotte Brontë, Anne Brontë, Patrick Brontë (1900)
"II THE bluebell THE bluebell is the sweetest flower That waves in summer air: Its blossoms have the mightiest power To soothe my spirit's care. ..."

3. The First-[sixth] Reader of the Popular Series by Marcius Willson (1881)
"The Fainting bluebell. 1. I. Up where the meadow grass Leans toward the river, Stood little bluebell, All in a shiver. 2. "River'! ..."

4. A Vers de Société Anthology by Carolyn Wells (1907)
"THE bluebell With a strolling Bumblebee; "I love you so," He whispered ... IN love she fell, My shy bluebell, "Sweet, give your heart to me! ..."

5. Publications of the Folk-Lore Foundation by Vassar College Folk-lore Foundation (1922)
"Pick a little bluebell, through the window, Pick a little bluebell, ... Pick a little bluebell and pat her on the shoulder, Pick a little bluebell and pat ..."

6. Famous Poems Explained: Helps to Reading with the Understanding, with by Waitman Barbe (1909)
"THE bluebell The bluebell tells a truth but not a fact; for there are many great truths which are not facts. Even some fairy stories contain great truths. ..."

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