campanula
- noun
- /kæmˈpæn.jə.lə/
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campanilla
- In my garden, the stunning blue campanula blooms brightly alongside daisies and sunflowers.
- blue campanulas
Examples
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The florist arranged a beautiful bouquet that featured delicate white campanula flowers.
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Typically we've got campanula here, just kind of a ground cover.
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And then I cut back the white campanulas that I had here and planted those right in here.
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Every spring, my neighbor plants campanula to add a splash of color to her 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 campana 'bell' plus the ending -ula 'small', so it literally means a 'little bell', which is easy to remember because the plant's flowers hang like small bell-shaped cups.