RAMPION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rampion mean? 

• RAMPION (noun)
  The noun RAMPION has 1 sense:

1. bellflower of Europe and Asia and North Africa having bluish flowers and an edible tuberous root used with the leaves in salad

  Familiarity information: RAMPION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RAMPION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Bellflower of Europe and Asia and North Africa having bluish flowers and an edible tuberous root used with the leaves in salad

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Campanula rapunculus; rampion; rampion bellflower

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

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

 Context examples 

The man, who loved her, thought: “Sooner than let your wife die, bring her some of the rampion yourself, let it cost what it will.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

My wife saw your rampion from the window, and felt such a longing for it that she would have died if she had not got some to eat.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

How can you dare, said she with angry look, descend into my garden and steal my rampion like a thief?

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

At twilight, he clambered down over the wall into the garden of the enchantress, hastily clutched a handful of rampion, and took it to his wife.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

One day the woman was standing by this window and looking down into the garden, when she saw a bed which was planted with the most beautiful rampion (rapunzel), and it looked so fresh and green that she longed for it, she quite pined away, and began to look pale and miserable.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Then her husband was alarmed, and asked: “What ails you, dear wife?” “Ah,” she replied, “if I can’t eat some of the rampion, which is in the garden behind our house, I shall die.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Then the enchantress allowed her anger to be softened, and said to him: If the case be as you say, I will allow you to take away with you as much rampion as you will, only I make one condition, you must give me the child which your wife will bring into the world; it shall be well treated, and I will care for it like a mother.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)