heather bell
- noun
:
campanilla de brezo
- The hills were covered with blooming heather bell in late summer.
Examples
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The heather bell attracts many bees with its vibrant flowers.
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A sprig of heather bell was tucked into her lapel for good luck.
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The heather bell blooms beautifully in the spring.
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In Scotland, the heather bell is a common sight.
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The hills were covered with blooming heather bell in late summer.
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A sprig of heather bell was tucked into her lapel for good luck.
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The heather bell attracts many bees with its vibrant flowers.
Synonyms
A low European shrub with purple-red bell-shaped flowers that grows on heaths
A small European shrub with thin needle-like leaves and bell-shaped purple or pink flowers
A low shrub with thin leaves and purple-red flowers that grows on open, poor soil
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound is directly compositional: 'heather' names the plant and 'bell' describes the bell-shaped form of its flowers, so the phrase denotes the bell-shaped part or flower of heather. This descriptive noun-noun formation is a common, cross-linguistic pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can infer the meaning without prior exposure.
Etymology
Heather bell comes from a simple picture: the low plant heather whose small flowers look like little bells. Because people saw these bell-like blooms on open hills, the name now means the common purple-red shrub with small bell-shaped flowers.
