harebell

American  

[hair-bel] / ˈhɛərˌbɛl /

noun

1. a low plant, Campanula rotundifolia, of the bellflower family, having narrow leaves and blue, bell-shaped flowers.

2. a plant, Endymion nonscriptus, of the lily family, having long, one-sided clusters of bell-shaped flowers.

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harebell British  

/ ˈhɛəˌbɛl /

noun

1. Also called (in Scotland): bluebell.  a N temperate campanulaceous plant, Campanula rotundifolia, having slender stems and leaves, and bell-shaped pale blue flowers

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Etymology

Origin of harebell

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; see origin at hare, bell ¹

Example Sentences

Every British Open golf course has its own atmosphere, made up of equal parts antiquated custom, salt-heavy air and local varieties of ankle-clutching grasses, the quaintly named harebell and petalwort that color the gray dunes.

From Washington Post • Jul. 19, 2017

Pale corydalis and harebell grew near the shore; sphagnum, leatherleaf and Labrador tea in the swampy sections of the hike.

From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2016

From the ubiquitous white yarrow to the purple harebell to the wonderfully named yellow blooms of "lady's bedstraw" to the creeping thistle to the tall rosebay willow herb, they color the landscape.

From Golf Digest • Oct. 16, 2013

Here and there a yellow tormentil showed in the grass, a late harebell or a few shreds of purple bloom on a brown, crisping tuft of self-heal.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

The fragile blossoms of the harebell lurk in the seclusion of our cool ca�ons or peer down at us from the banks of shaded mountain roads toward the end of July.

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