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单词 canterbury bells
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Canterbury bells


Canterbury bells

pl.n. (used with a sing. or pl. verb) A European biennial herb (Campanula medium) widely cultivated for its showy, bell-shaped, blue, pink, or white flowers.
[From the association of the flowers with the bells on the horses of Canterbury pilgrims.]

Can′terbury bells`


n.
(used with a sing. or pl. v.) a plant, Campanula medium, of the bellflower family, cultivated for its bell-shaped violet-blue, pink, or white flowers. [1570–80]

Canterbury bells


Canterbury bells:

see bellflowerbellflower
or bluebell,
name commonly used as a comprehensive term for members of the Campanulaceae, a family of chiefly herbaceous annuals or perennials of wide distribution, characteristically found on dry slopes in temperate and subtropical areas.
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Canterbury bells

fairies’ church bells; relied on for vigilance. [Flower Symbolism: Flora Symbolica, 167]See: Warning
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