Campanula
- noun
- /kæmˈpæn.jə.lə/
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campanula
- In the spring, the campanula blooms brightly, attracting bees and butterflies to its delicate petals.
Examples
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Campanula!
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The garden was filled with vibrant campanulas, showcasing their stunning bell-shaped flowers.
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These are the ones, the annual campanulas that get the huge big bell flowers.
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- Ah, the campanula.
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So we thinned our campanulas, our rudbeckias, our Yarrow.
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Many gardeners choose campanulas for their beautiful blue hues and easy maintenance in flower beds.
Synonyms
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A plant with bell-shaped blue or white flowers
Compounds
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A plant with long spikes of blue or white bell-shaped flowers that grows in eastern North America
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A small marsh plant in eastern North America with narrow leaves and white bell-shaped flowers
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A low plant that grows in small clumps with blue or white bell-shaped flowers that comes back every year
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A small wild flower with pale blue, bell-shaped flowers that grows in southeastern United States woods
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A garden flower with bell-shaped blooms in dense clusters usually violet-blue or white
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A garden plant that usually lives two years with bell-shaped blue, violet, or white flowers, also called Canterbury bell
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A plant from Europe that lives for many years with blue or white bell-shaped flowers in clusters
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A tall garden plant from southeastern Europe with many blue, bell-shaped flowers
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A European plant with purple bell-shaped flowers that can spread and be hard to remove
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A bellflower with blue flowers and an edible root used in salads
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A small wild plant with thin stems and blue bell-shaped flowers often called harebell
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A European bellflower with blue-purple flowers that was used for sore throats
Surface Forms
Etymology
Campanula comes from the Latin root campana, which means 'bell', plus a small ending that means 'little'. So Campanula literally means 'little bell', which is an easy memory because these bellflowers have bell-shaped blossoms.