campanulate

American  

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

adjective

1. bellshaped, as a corolla.

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campanulate British  

/ kæmˈpænjʊlɪt, -ˌleɪt /

adjective

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

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Other Word Forms

• subcampanulate adjective

Etymology

Origin of campanulate

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

Example Sentences

Stems coarse, often climbing high; corolla-lobes mostly shorter than the deeply campanulate tube; scales copiously fringed; capsule globose, umbonate.—Wet shady places, Canada to Minn., south to Fla. and Tex.

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

The pale flowers, with orange centers, when fully open, roll their petals back to the stem, like those of the leopard-lily; but in cloudy weather they often maintain a campanulate outline.

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

Calyx.—With campanulate tube and usually five unequal lobes.

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

Involucres.—Loosely clustered; sessile; one-flowered; campanulate; with six bristle-like teeth.

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