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UK
/blˈuːbɛl/
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[ US /ˈbɫuˌbɛɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈbɫuˌbɛɫ/ ]
NOUN
- sometimes placed in genus Scilla
- one of the most handsome prairie wildflowers having large erect bell-shaped bluish flowers; of moist places in prairies and fields from eastern Colorado and Nebraska south to New Mexico and Texas
- perennial of northern hemisphere with slender stems and bell-shaped blue flowers
How To Use bluebell In A Sentence
- The two cross-fertilise easily to form a hybrid, which is apparently often sold to un-suspecting buyers who simply ask for bluebells.
- Stop there for a cream tea or in spring make a short detour to see the bluebells. Times, Sunday Times
- Other flowers that are often seen in the bluebell woods are wood anemone, wood sorrel and ramsons (or wild garlic). Times, Sunday Times
- Actually, its been nice so far - spent most of the morning in Sulham Woods (no decent links, but I've got shedloads of photos, so they'll be online after the weekend), among the bluebells and so on.
- The children, as well as planting trees, also planted more than 150 bluebell bulbs and, had the weather been better, they could have planted snowdrops and daffodils too.
- Spanish bluebell is a good bet everywhere except the intermediate and low deserts.
- After being stunned by the spring flowers she saw in the park while she was pregnant, she decided to call her daughter Bluebell.
- We found some, but not the great swathes that we had hoped for, although we were rewarded by plenty of patches of bluebells, drifts of wood anemones, a glade with masses of milkmaids and lots of primroses, cowslips and violas and bugle.
- In the same woods, though usually growing away from the bluebells, there are often colonies of ramsons, or wild garlic. Times, Sunday Times
- Banks of primroses, drifts of bluebells and clusters of cowslips are now found only in secret, out-of-the-way places.
