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campanulate

American  
[kam-pan-yuh-lit, -leyt] / kæmˈpæn jə lɪt, -ˌleɪt /

adjective

  1. bellshaped, as a corolla.


campanulate British  
/ kæmˈpænjʊlɪt, -ˌleɪt /

adjective

  1. (esp of flower corollas) shaped like a bell

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of campanulate

From the New Latin word campānulātus, dating back to 1660–70. See campanula, -ate 1

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Ovules and seeds 2–8 on each placenta; corolla rotate or campanulate, with entire lobes and no appendages.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

MELÒTHRIA, L. Flowers polygamous or monœcious; the sterile campanulate, the corolla 5-lobed; the fertile with the calyx-tube constricted above the ovary, then campanulate.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

Corolla.—Regular; funnel-form, salver-form, or sometimes short campanulate or rotate; convolute in the bud.

From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Parsons, Mary Elizabeth

From the campanulate, half-opened buds, it has been called "Californian bluebell," and among the Spanish-Californians it is known as "Mariana."

From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Parsons, Mary Elizabeth

Having the shape of a widemouthed bell; campanulate.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah

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