bellwort

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

noun any of various plants of the genus Uvularia having yellowish drooping bell-shaped flowers

From bell + wort.

Hark, she thought she heard a bird sing in a far off, dreamy way, and for a moment she made mud pies in the back yard of the hut on the mountain, under the black-oak in the yard, with the glint of soft sunshine over everything and the murmur of green leaves in the trees above, as the wind from off the mountain went through them, and the anemone, and bellworts, and daisies grew beneath and around. — The Bishop of Cottontown: A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills, John Trotwood Moore

merry bells, wild oats

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