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bluebell

/ˌbluˈbɛl/
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Other forms: bluebells

Definitions of bluebell
  1. 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
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    type of:
    wild flower, wildflower
    wild or uncultivated flowering plant
  2. noun
    perennial of northern hemisphere with slender stems and bell-shaped blue flowers
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    type of:
    bellflower, campanula
    any of various plants of the genus Campanula having blue or white bell-shaped flowers
  3. noun
    sometimes placed in genus Scilla
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    type of:
    liliaceous plant
    plant growing from a bulb or corm or rhizome or tuber
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