campanula
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of campanula
1655–65; < New Latin, equivalent to Late Latin campān ( a ) bell ( see campanile) + Latin -ula -ule
Example Sentences
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From what we see and hear of them, unless campanula has unexpected powers to soothe and unite, six months of intensive family therapy would seem a better investment.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 3, 2011
Wild tulips, yellow or of broken colors; the campanula, the wild honeysuckle, lupines--not yet quite in bloom--the sweetbrier and increasing quantities of the wild rose gave life to the always changing scene.
From The Covered Wagon by Emerson Hough
I shall not, however, place the campanula in my herbarium, but in a vase of fresh water, where bouquets of sweet recollections bloom.
From Withered Leaves. Vol. I. (of III) A Novel by Rudolf von Gottschall
Melicertum campanula seenfrom above; m mouth, o o ovaries,t t tentacles.
From Seaside Studies in Natural History Marine Animals of Massachusetts Bay. Radiates. by Alexander Agassiz
It was an awakening, and she broke off, rather slowly, one—two—three—even four campanula stems before she stood upright again.
From The Shuttle by Frances Hodgson Burnett
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