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CALIFORNIA BLUEBELL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does California bluebell mean?
• CALIFORNIA BLUEBELL (noun)
The noun CALIFORNIA BLUEBELL has 2 senses:
1. desert plant of southern California with blue or violet tubular flowers in terminal racemes
2. annual of southern California with intricately branched stems and lax cymes of aromatic deep blue bell-shaped flowers
Familiarity information: CALIFORNIA BLUEBELL used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Desert plant of southern California with blue or violet tubular flowers in terminal racemes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
California bluebell; Phacelia minor; Phacelia whitlavia; whitlavia
Hypernyms ("California bluebell" is a kind of...):
phacelia; scorpion weed; scorpionweed (any plant of the genus Phacelia)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Annual of southern California with intricately branched stems and lax cymes of aromatic deep blue bell-shaped flowers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
California bluebell; Phacelia campanularia
Hypernyms ("California bluebell" is a kind of...):
phacelia; scorpion weed; scorpionweed (any plant of the genus Phacelia)
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