Canterbury bell

British  

noun

1. a campanulaceous biennial European plant, Campanula medium, widely cultivated for its blue, violet, or white flowers

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Example Sentences

If you want to get up close and personal with blankets of goldfields, Canterbury bells, filaree and other native plants, your best bet is to take a hike.

From Los Angeles Times

They got close in 2013, engineering a “bluer-colored” one by splicing in a gene from Canterbury bells, which naturally make blue flowers.

From New York Times

Noda and his colleagues found that genes from the Canterbury bells and butterfly pea altered the molecular structure of the anthocyanin in the chrysanthemum.

From Nature

Naonobu Noda, a plant biologist at the National Agriculture and Food Research Organization in Tsukuba, Japan, tackled this problem by first putting a gene from a bluish flower called the Canterbury bell into a chrysanthemum.

From Science Magazine

The flowers last the longest and are brighter than other area species, such as baby blue eyes, arroyo lupine, caterpillar phacelia and Canterbury bells.

From Los Angeles Times