SILVER BELL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does silver bell mean? 

• SILVER BELL (noun)
  The noun SILVER BELL has 1 sense:

1. any of various deciduous trees of the genus Halesia having white bell-shaped flowers

  Familiarity information: SILVER BELL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SILVER BELL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various deciduous trees of the genus Halesia having white bell-shaped flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("silver bell" is a kind of...):

angiospermous tree; flowering tree (any tree having seeds and ovules contained in the ovary)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "silver bell"):

Halesia carolina; Halesia tetraptera; opossum wood; silver-bell tree; silverbell tree; snowdrop tree (medium-sized tree of West Virginia to Florida and Texas)

Holonyms ("silver bell" is a member of...):

genus Halesia; Halesia (deciduous small trees or shrubs of China and eastern North America)

 Context examples 

Sometimes she feel good and she sing. Her voice is like a silver bell, and I feel good all over like when I go into church at Holy Cross Mission, and when she sing I feel strong and paddle like hell.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

We had heard no step on that grass-grown track; the water running in the vale was the one lulling sound of the hour and scene; we might well then start when a gay voice, sweet as a silver bell, exclaimed—Good evening, Mr. Rivers.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)