bluebell

English

Etymology

blue +‎ bell

Noun

bluebell (plural bluebells)

1. Various flowering plants with blue, usually pendulous, flowers.
   1. In genus Hyacinthoides
      1. common bluebell (Hyacinthoides non-scripta)
      2. Spanish bluebell (Hyacinthoides hispanica)
      3. Italian bluebell (Hyacinthoides italica)
   2. In other genera
      1. grape hyacinth (Muscari)
      2. (usually in the plural) Virginia bluebell (Mertensia virginica)
      3. Scottish bluebell (harebell) (Campanula rotundifolia)
         • 1947 January and February, O. S. Nock, “"The Aberdonian" in Wartime”, in Railway Magazine, page 9:

           The cutting sides were gay with heather in bloom, and masses of dainty Scots bluebells, while patches of clear sky overhead were bringing life and colour to the sea.

      4. Australian royal bluebell (Wahlenbergia gloriosa)
      5. Texas bluebell (Eustoma russellianum)
      6. desert bluebell or California bluebell (Phacelia campanularia)

Derived terms

• bluebell creeper
• bluebell of Scotland
• Riverina bluebell
• sea bluebell

 

Translations

flowering plants of the genus Hyacinthoides

• Avar: цӏункӏулукӏал (cʼunkʼulukʼal)
• Bulgarian: див зюмбюл m (div zjumbjul)
• Catalan: jacint dels boscos
• Dutch: wilde hyacint (nl)
• French: jacinthe des bois (fr) f
• Irish: (Common bluebell) coinnle corra f pl, (Spanish bluebell) coinnle corra Spáinneacha f pl
• Occitan: jacint dels bòsques m
• Polish: dzwonek (pl)
• Russian: колоко́льчик (ru) m (kolokólʹčik)
• Scottish Gaelic: bròg na cuthaige f
• Spanish: jacinto de los bosques m
• Swedish: klockhyacint c
• Welsh: bwtsiasen y gog f

harebell

• Avar: цӏункӏулукӏал (cʼunkʼulukʼal)
• Bulgarian: камбанка f (kambanka)
• Dutch: grasklokje n
• Finnish: kissankello (fi)
• Ingrian: kellokukka
• Irish: méaracán gorm m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: blåklokke (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: blåklokke f

• Russian: колоко́льчик (ru) m (kolokólʹčik)
• Swedish: blåklocka (sv) c
• Welsh: cloch yr eos f