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

Bromehead, W., doubling of the Canterbury bell by selection, ii.

From The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) by Darwin, Charles

"I don't mind that so much as their silly songs, after we've fed 'em, all about 'work among the merry, merry blossoms," said Sacharissa from the deeps of a stale Canterbury bell.

From Actions and Reactions by Kipling, Rudyard

C. Medium, Canterbury bell, with large blue, purple and white flowers, is a favourite and handsome biennial, of which there are numerous varieties.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" by Various

But when he stopped to look at the flower he had plucked, he found it was only quite an ordinary Canterbury bell!

From More Tales in the Land of Nursery Rhyme by Marzials, Ada M.

Of such are adlumia, Canterbury bell, lunaria, ipomopsis, Œnothera Lamarckiana; and foxglove, valerian, and some other perennials would better be treated as biennials.

From Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) by Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde)