HAREBELL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does harebell mean? 

• HAREBELL (noun)
  The noun HAREBELL has 2 senses:

1. sometimes placed in genus Scilla

2. perennial of northern hemisphere with slender stems and bell-shaped blue flowers

  Familiarity information: HAREBELL used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HAREBELL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sometimes placed in genus Scilla

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

bluebell; harebell; Hyacinthoides nonscripta; Scilla nonscripta; wild hyacinth; wood hyacinth

Hypernyms ("harebell" is a kind of...):

liliaceous plant (plant growing from a bulb or corm or rhizome or tuber)

Holonyms ("harebell" is a member of...):

genus Hyacinthoides; Hyacinthoides (small genus of perennial bulbs of western Europe and North Africa; sometimes placed in family Hyacinthaceae)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Perennial of northern hemisphere with slender stems and bell-shaped blue flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

bluebell; Campanula rotundifolia; harebell

Hypernyms ("harebell" is a kind of...):

bellflower; campanula (any of various plants of the genus Campanula having blue or white bell-shaped flowers)