Campanula rapunculus
- noun
- Specialized
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Campanula rapunculus
- The salad featured leaves and thin slices of Campanula rapunculus tuber, giving it a unique flavor.
Examples
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Botanists admire the delicate blue flowers of Campanula rapunculus found across European meadows.
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In the old country, people used to collect Campanula rapunculus for its tasty roots every spring.
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The Campanula rapunculus is often found in gardens across Europe.
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Have you ever tried a salad made with Campanula rapunculus?
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The salad featured leaves and thin slices of Campanula rapunculus tuber, giving it a unique flavor.
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In the old country, people used to collect Campanula rapunculus for its tasty roots every spring.
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Have you ever tried a salad made with Campanula rapunculus?
Synonyms
A plant with blue bell-shaped flowers and an edible root used in salads
A plant with blue bell-shaped flowers whose root and leaves are edible
Surface Forms
Morphology
Campanula + rapunculus
This is a scientific Latin binomial: 'Campanula' directly signals the bellflower genus, so a learner who knows that constituent could infer it is a kind of bellflower. However, 'rapunculus' is not a common English word (it is a species epithet) and the specific details (edible tuberous root, bluish flowers) are specialized and not fully predictable from the parts, so the meaning is only partially transparent.
Etymology
Campanula rapunculus comes from Latin: campanula means 'little bell' because the flowers look like tiny bells, and rapunculus means 'small turnip' because people ate its round root. So the name points to a bell-shaped flower with a tasty root that was used in salads.
