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# bluebell

noun (a bluebell, bluebells)

«bluebell» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A wild plant with nodding, bell-shaped blue or purple flowers that grows in woods in spring, especially in Britain and Ireland. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bluebell/#m1)
2. (Scotland) Another name for the harebell, a delicate blue summer flower. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bluebell/#m2)
3. In other places, other blue bell-shaped flowers, like Virginia bluebells in the USA. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bluebell/#m3)

### In the lessons

In nature lessons in the UK and Ireland, bluebell woods are a famous spring sight; they show that a wood is very old (ancient woodland). Bluebells are protected: it is illegal to dig them up from the wild. In fairy stories bluebells ring to call fairies. Phrases: bluebell wood, a carpet of bluebells.

### Examples

- In spring, the wood was carpeted with bluebells. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bluebell/#x1)
- Bluebells grow best in old woods. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bluebell/#x2)
- Don't pick or dig up wild bluebells; they are protected. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bluebell/#x3)
- The bluebells smelled sweet in the sunshine. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bluebell/#x4)
- We walked through a bluebell wood on our school trip. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bluebell/#x5)
- Bees love bluebell flowers. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bluebell/#x6)
- Sweet is the scent of the hawthorn, and sweet are the bluebells that hide in the valley, and the heather that blows on the hill. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bluebell/#x7)

### Note

Countable: a bluebell, bluebells. One word. Safety: all parts of bluebells are poisonous to eat, especially for pets. Its Latin name is Hyacinthoides.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «bluebell» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bluebell/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«bluebell» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/bluebell.html) on Mova free.