tall bellflower
- noun
- US
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campanilla alta
- She identified the wildflower as a tall bellflower because of its distinctive blue blossoms.
Examples
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We found several tall bellflower plants blooming along the forest path.
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The garden was brightened by clusters of tall bellflowers swaying in the wind.
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The tall bellflower blooms in the summer.
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We planted several tall bellflowers in our garden.
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She identified the wildflower as a tall bellflower because of its distinctive blue blossoms.
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The garden was brightened by clusters of tall bellflowers swaying in the wind.
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We found several tall bellflower plants blooming along the forest path.
Synonyms
A plant with long spikes of blue or white bell-shaped flowers that grows in eastern North America
Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun phrase is compositionally built from 'tall' (higher in stature) modifying 'bellflower' (a bell-shaped-flower plant), so its meaning — a bellflower that is relatively tall — is directly derivable from the constituents. This adjective + noun pattern is a standard, cross-linguistic compositional structure, so a B1 learner who knows both words will understand the phrase.
Etymology
Tall bellflower gives a simple image: a tall bellflower is a plant with long stems and many small, hanging flowers that look like little bells. So, it means 'a tall plant with bell-shaped flowers'.
