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Bluebell   Listen
noun
Bluebell  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" Quotes from Famous Books



... of cold Falls on the mountain in midsummer snows, And all the purple slopes of mountain flowers Pass under white, till the warm hour returns With veer of wind, and all are flowers again; So dame and damsel cast the simple white, And glowing in all colours, the live grass, Rose-campion, bluebell, kingcup, poppy, glanced About the revels, and with mirth so loud Beyond all use, that, half-amazed, the Queen, And wroth at Tristram and the lawless jousts, Brake up their sports, then slowly to her bower Parted, and in her bosom pain ...
— Idylls of the King • Alfred, Lord Tennyson
... daffodil, and not finding one, contented herself with a bluebell, which she did not tear to pieces, but caressed with a tender hand. Kenelm bent his eyes down on her charming face with something in their gaze rarely seen there,—something of that unreasoning, inexpressible human ...
— Kenelm Chillingly, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... bluebell and primrose are blossoming fast, And see, where the snow-drifts still cling, The Sun his rich mantle has gallantly cast At the ...
— Chatterbox, 1905. • Various


Words linked to "Bluebell" :   Eustoma grandiflorum, wildflower, Scilla nonscripta, genus Hyacinthoides, wood hyacinth, Virginia bluebell, liliaceous plant, campanula, wild hyacinth, harebell, genus Eustoma, bellflower, Eustoma, wild flower, tulip gentian, Hyacinthoides nonscripta, prairie gentian, Campanula rotundifolia, California bluebell, Hyacinthoides


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