campanula

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

noun any of various plants of the genus Campanula having blue or white bell-shaped flowers

From translingual Campanula, from Latin campānula, diminutive of campāna (“bell”).

And on the marge were blue campanula, sundew, and forget-me-not, such as no child could resist. — Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor, R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore
Spikes of genista and beds of needle-furze showed sharply yellow, vividly green, and a fringe of blue campanula, with frail, quivering bells, outlined all open spaces. — The History of Sir Richard Calmady: A Romance, Lucas Malet
Farther away in the meadow there were dark-blue campanulas and wild pinks, and I ran down to the very edge of the river to get yellow water-lilies. — White nights, and other stories, Fyodor Dostoyevsky

bellflower

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