BLUEBELL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bluebell mean? 

• BLUEBELL (noun)
  The noun BLUEBELL has 3 senses:

1. sometimes placed in genus Scilla

2. 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. perennial of northern hemisphere with slender stems and bell-shaped blue flowers

  Familiarity information: BLUEBELL used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLUEBELL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sometimes placed in genus Scilla

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

bluebell; harebell; Hyacinthoides nonscripta; Scilla nonscripta; wild hyacinth; wood hyacinth

Hypernyms ("bluebell" is a kind of...):

liliaceous plant (plant growing from a bulb or corm or rhizome or tuber)

Holonyms ("bluebell" is a member of...):

genus Hyacinthoides; Hyacinthoides (small genus of perennial bulbs of western Europe and North Africa; sometimes placed in family Hyacinthaceae)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

bluebell; Eustoma grandiflorum; prairie gentian; tulip gentian

Hypernyms ("bluebell" is a kind of...):

wild flower; wildflower (wild or uncultivated flowering plant)

Holonyms ("bluebell" is a member of...):

Eustoma; genus Eustoma (small genus of herbs of warm regions of southern North America to northern South America)

Sense 3

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

bluebell; Campanula rotundifolia; harebell

Hypernyms ("bluebell" is a kind of...):

bellflower; campanula (any of various plants of the genus Campanula having blue or white bell-shaped flowers)