The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
n. A perennial plant (Campanula rotundifolia) having slender stems, dense clusters of basal leaves, and bell-shaped blue or white flowers. Also called bluebell.
n. A perennial flowering plant, Campanula rotundifolia, native to the Northern Hemisphere, with blue, bell-like flowers.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. A small, slender, branching plant (Campanula rotundifolia), having blue bell-shaped flowers; also, Scilla nutans, which has similar flowers; -- called also bluebell.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. A species of bell-flower, Campanula rotundifolia, the well-known bluebell of Scotland.
n. The wild hyacinth, Scilla nutans, or Hyacinthus non-scriptus.
WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
n. sometimes placed in genus Scilla
n. perennial of northern hemisphere with slender stems and bell-shaped blue flowers
Word Usage
"a kind of harebell more potent than penicillin, growing leaf by leaf, skin by skin. as rapt and as fluid as Isadoran Duncan."