stink bell
- noun
- US
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campana hedionda
- We identified a patch of stink bell by its distinctive bell-shaped flowers and strong scent.
Examples
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Farmers often try to remove stink bell from their grainfields due to its unpleasant odor.
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The field was overrun with stink bell after the heavy spring rains.
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The stink bell grows abundantly in California.
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I saw a stink bell in the field yesterday.
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Farmers often try to remove stink bell from their grainfields due to its unpleasant odor.
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We identified a patch of stink bell by its distinctive bell-shaped flowers and strong scent.
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The field was overrun with stink bell after the heavy spring rains.
Synonyms
A California wildflower with bell-shaped flowers and a strong unpleasant smell, often growing as a weed in grain fields
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound combines 'stink' (foul odor) and 'bell' (bell-shaped), so a learner who knows both words can infer a bell-shaped plant with a bad smell. This noun–noun descriptive pattern is compositional and follows common cross-linguistic naming practices, making the meaning immediately deducible.
Etymology
Stink bell is a plant with a bad smell and bell-shaped flowers that often grows as a 'weed' in grain fields. The name comes from stink, for the bad smell, and bell, for the flower shape, so it means a smelly plant farmers try to remove.
