blue·bell /-ˌbɛl/
野風信子
Blue·bell n. Bot. (a) A plant of the genus Campanula, especially the Campanula rotundifolia, which bears blue bell-shaped flowers; the harebell. (b) A plant of the genus Scilla (Scilla nutans).
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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 laving 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]