bluebell Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun sometimes placed in genus Scilla
    wild hyacinth; Hyacinthoides nonscripta; Scilla nonscripta; harebell; wood hyacinth.
  2. noun 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. noun perennial of northern hemisphere with slender stems and bell-shaped blue flowers
    Campanula rotundifolia; harebell.

WordNet

Blue"bell` noun
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) (a) A plant of the genus Campanula, especially the Campanula rotundifolia, which bears blue bell-shaped flowers; the harebell. (b) A plant of the genus Scilla (Scilla nutans).

Webster 1913