harebell

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Etymology

From Middle English harebelle, equivalent to hare +‎ bell.

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Harebells

harebell (plural harebells)

  1. 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.
  2. 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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