Campanula


any plant of the genus Campanula, comprising the bellflowers.
Historical Examples

Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and The William Griffith
Vegetable Teratology Maxwell T. Masters
The Nameless Castle Maurus Jkai
The Browning Cyclopdia Edward Berdoe
Vegetable Teratology Maxwell T. Masters
The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) Charles Darwin
Everyday Objects W. H. Davenport Adams
Field Book of Western Wild Flowers Margaret Armstrong
Vegetable Teratology Maxwell T. Masters
Appletons’ Popular Science Monthly, December 1898 Various

noun
any N temperate plant of the campanulaceous genus Campanula, typically having blue or white bell-shaped flowers Also called bellflower See also Canterbury bell, harebell

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