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Noun: bluebell  'bloo,bel
  1. Sometimes placed in genus Scilla
    - wild hyacinth, wood hyacinth, harebell, Hyacinthoides nonscripta, Scilla nonscripta
     
  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
    - prairie gentian, tulip gentian, Eustoma grandiflorum
     
  3. Perennial of Northern Hemisphere with slender stems and bell-shaped blue flowers
    - harebell, Campanula rotundifolia

Derived forms: bluebells

Type of: bellflower, campanula, liliaceous plant, wild flower, wildflower

Part of: Eustoma, genus Eustoma, genus Hyacinthoides, Hyacinthoides

Encyclopedia: Bluebell, Utah