harebell

English

Alternative forms

• hairbell

Etymology

From Middle English harebelle, equivalent to hare +‎ bell.

Noun

Harebells

harebell (plural harebells)

1. A perennial flowering plant, Campanula rotundifolia, native to the Northern Hemisphere, with blue, bell-like flowers.
   • 1789, Erasmus Darwin, The Loves of the Plants, J. Johnson, page 2:

     How Snow-drops cold, and blue-eyed Harebells blend / Their tender tears, as o'er the stream they bend […] .

   • 2020, Jasper Fforde, The Constant Rabbit, page 7:

     Her most striking feature, then as now, was her eyes: both large and expressive, but while one was the brown of a fresh hazelnut, the other was pale bluey-violet, the colour of harebells.

2. foxglove
   • 1940, Rosetta E. Clarkson, Green Enchantments: The Magic Spell of Gardens, The Macmillan Company, page 258:

     I wonder whether the witches would be wearing on their fingers their ornaments of foxglove blossoms, often called witches' bells or harebells, sometimes known as witches' thimbles.

Synonyms

• bluebell, blawort, lady's thimble, witch's bells, witch's thimbles

Translations

plant

• Bulgarian: камбанка f (kambanka)
• Danish: blåklokke c
• Dutch: grasklokje (nl) n
• Faroese: bláklokka f
• Finnish: kissankello (fi)
• German: Rundblättrige Glockenblume f
• Ingrian: kellokukka
• Irish: méaracán gorm m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: blåklokke (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: blåklokke f

• Russian: колоко́льчик круглоли́стный m (kolokólʹčik kruglolístnyj)
• Scots: blaver
• Swedish: blåklocka (sv) c

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