Crossword clues for bluebell
bluebell
- One of the most handsome prairie wildflowers laving 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
- Sometimes placed in genus Scilla
- Sad Big Ben?
- Garden columbine
- Showy wildflower
- Grape hyacinth
- Woodland spring flower
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 Various flowering plants with blue, usually pendulous, flowers. 2 # In genus (taxlink Hyacinthoides genus noshow=1) 3 ## (vern common bluebell pedia=1) ((taxlink Hyacinthoides non-scripta species noshow=1)) 4 ## (vern Spanish bluebell pedia=1) ((taxlink Hyacinthoides hispanica species noshow=1)) 5 ## (vern Italian bluebell pedia=1) ((taxlink Hyacinthoides italica species noshow=1)) 6 # In other genera 7 ## genus ''Muscari'', the grape hyacinth) 8 ## (label en usually plural) (vern Virginia bluebell pedia=1) ((taxlink Mertensia virginica species noshow=1)) 9 ## (vern Scottish bluebell pedia=1) (harebell) ((taxlink Campanula rotundifolia species noshow=1)) 10 ## (vern Australian royal bluebell pedia=1) ((taxlink Wahlenbergia gloriosa species noshow=1)) 11 ## (vern Texas bluebell pedia=1) ((taxlink Eustoma russellianum species noshow=1)) 12 ## (vern desert bluebell pedia=1) or (vern California bluebell pedia=1) ((taxlink Phacelia campanularia species noshow=1))
WordNet
n. sometimes placed in genus Scilla [syn: wild hyacinth, wood hyacinth, harebell, Hyacinthoides nonscripta, Scilla nonscripta]
one of the most handsome prairie wildflowers laving large erect bell-shaped bluish flowers; of moist places in prairies and fields from eastern Colorado and Nebraska south to New Mexico and Texas [syn: prairie gentian, tulip gentian, Eustoma grandiflorum]
perennial of northern hemisphere with slender stems and bell-shaped blue flowers [syn: harebell, Campanula rotundifolia]
Wikipedia
Bluebell, Bluebells, or Bluebelle may refer to:
Bluebell is a British television drama series produced by the BBC in 1986.
The series was set before and during the Second World War and was based around a dance troupe performing in Europe. The leading cast members were Carolyn Pickles, Philip Sayer, Carmel McSharry and Annie Lambert. The drama series was based on Margaret Kelly Leibovici and her dance troupe named the Bluebell Girls. Margaret Kelly is often referred to as Miss Bluebell. Carolyn Pickles played Miss Bluebell.
Usage examples of "bluebell".
The thick moss and ferns, the bluebells and the bloodroots with their starry white blooms, the interlaced boughs, and the gentle gurgle of the water running over the smooth stones made a more lovely dining chamber, Ista thought, than she had sat in for many a year.
So rode they down the Side, through deep peaceful meadows fair with white ox-eye daisies, bluebells and yellow goatsbeard and sea campion, deep-blue gentians, agrimony and wild marjoram, and pink clover and bindweed and great yellow buttercups feasting on the sun.
There was always something to be picked at different times of the year, cowslips not butter cups or daisies, they were too common catkins, wood anemones, ferns, bluebells and may, beautiful scented white may.
Like aqualungs of death they were, those canisters, if you were a Bee Orchid or a Bluebell.
Becky and Bruce were at the other end of the little wood with Muffin, she could hear their happy voices, and just for the moment she wished with all her heart that she could call a halt to time and stay there in the sunshine with the bluebells all around her and the thin evening light dappling the trees.
Scotland with its rolling hills and deep valleys carpeted in bluebells and hawthorne.
Dusting off her bands, she looked through the window in the side of the tree house and breathed in the splendor of the valley and hills, decked out in bright hawthorn, cherry, and bluebells, then she turned back to inspect the little room.
The ground there was covered with a mist of bluebells, and nearly a score of crab-apple trees were in full bloom.
He lay there a long time, watching the sunlight wheel till the crab-trees threw shadows over the bluebells, his only companions a few wild bees.
There had been the most delightful lot of bluebells, and-- he knew where some still lingered like little patches of sky fallen irk between the trees, away out of the sun.
White hawthorn weighted the hedges, and creamy primroses and bluebells flourished beneath the trees.
Now I picked the creamy primroses and the nodding bluebells, bright celandine and hidden violets and forget-me-nots like pieces of fallen sky, for no other reason than that they were beautiful.
They were like lovers who, rambling in a shy wood, never dare stay their babbling talk of the trees and birds and lost bluebells, lest in the deep waters of a kiss their star of all that is to come should fall and be drowned.
I was telling her quietly in my rusty Spanish about the bluebells I used to look for in the Yorkshire woods.
Her eyes were sunlit, the colour of bluebells, and still shadowed very faintly with fatigue.