Definition of "bluebell"

Various flowering plants with blue, usually pendulous, flowers.

1. In genus Hyacinthoides

   1. common bluebell (Hyacinthoides non-scripta)  examples

   2. Spanish bluebell (Hyacinthoides hispanica)  examples

   3. Italian bluebell (Hyacinthoides italica)  examples

2. In other genera

   1. grape hyacinth (Muscari)  examples

   2. (usually in the plural) Virginia bluebell (Mertensia virginica)  examples

   3. Scottish bluebell (harebell) (Campanula rotundifolia)  quotations  examples

      Quotations

      • 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.

        1947 January and February, O. S. Nock, “"The Aberdonian" in Wartime”, in Railway Magazine, page 9

   4. Australian royal bluebell (Wahlenbergia gloriosa)  examples

   5. Texas bluebell (Eustoma russellianum)  examples

   6. desert bluebell or California bluebell (Phacelia campanularia)  examples