BLUEBELL

noun Date: 1578 any of various bellflowers, any of various plants bearing blue bell-shaped flowers: as, a European herb ( Hyacinthoides nonscripta syn. Scilla nonscripta ) of the lily family having scapose racemes of drooping bell-shaped flowers, a glabrous erect eastern United States herb ( Mertensia virginica ) of the borage family with entire leaves and showy blue flowers pink in the bud