Bellflower Definition

bĕlflouər
noun
Any of various herbs of the genus Campanula, native chiefly to the Northern Hemisphere and having bell-shaped, usually violet or blue flowers.
American Heritage
Any of a genus (Campanula) of plants of this family, with showy, bell-shaped flowers of white, pink, or blue, widely distributed in the temperate zones.
Webster's New World
Any of various other plants with bell-shaped flowers.
American Heritage

A common name for flowering plants in any of the genera Campanula, Campanulastrum, Codonopsis, or Platycodon.

Wiktionary

A flower of one of these plants, which is shaped like a bell.

Wiktionary
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adjective
Designating a large family (Campanulaceae, order Campanulales) of dicotyledonous flowering plants.
Webster's New World

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bellflower
Plural:
bellflowers

Origin of Bellflower

Bellflower Sentence Examples

  • Plants found in the short turf include Chiltern gentian, dwarf thistle, dropwort, clustered bellflower and the rare clustered bellflower.

  • Codonopsis - The members of this small genus of the Bellflower order are remarkable rather for a quaint, distinctive beauty of their own, not half of which is disclosed externally.

  • Nettle-leaved bellflower is found on the Roadside Nature Reserves around Crundale.

  • Relay Race by David Yehudah, Bellflower, CA, USA These little hairy varmint critters never fail to amaze me.

  • Clustered Bellflower (Campanula Glomerata) - A handsome plant about 2 feet high, the stems terminated by dense clusters of pretty intense purple flowers.

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