harebell
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Etymology[edit]
From Middle English harebelle, equivalent to hare + bell.
Noun[edit]
harebell (plural harebells)
- A perennial flowering plant, Campanula rotundifolia, native to the Northern Hemisphere, with blue, bell-like flowers.
- 1789, Erasmus Darwin, The Loves of the Plants, J. Johnson, page 2:
- How Snow-drops cold, and blue-eyed Harebells blend / Their tender tears, as o'er the stream they bend […] .
- 2020, Jasper Fforde, The Constant Rabbit, page 7:
- Her most striking feature, then as now, was her eyes: both large and expressive, but while one was the brown of a fresh hazelnut, the other was pale bluey-violet, the colour of harebells.
- foxglove
- 1940, Rosetta E. Clarkson, Green Enchantments: The Magic Spell of Gardens, The Macmillan Company, page 258:
- I wonder whether the witches would be wearing on their fingers their ornaments of foxglove blossoms, often called witches' bells or harebells, sometimes known as witches' thimbles.
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