ˈheath-bell
1. The bell-shaped flower of the Heath: cf. heather-bell.
| 1808 Scott Marm. iii. Introd. ix, Let the wild heath-bell flourish still. 1810 ― Lady of L. iii. v, Heath-bell with her purple bloom. 1840 L. S. Costello Summer amongst the Bocages I. 128 Before the smell of steam has taken the place of the perfume of the heath-bell. |
2. Applied to other bell-shaped flowers growing on heaths, esp. the Blue-bell (Campanula rotundifolia).
| 1804 J. Grahame Sabbath (1808) 67 Thinly strewed with heath-bells up and down. 1821 Clare Vill. Minstr. II. 135 Last lingering of the flowery kind, Blue heath-bells tremble 'neath the sheltering furze. 1824 L. Hunt Mirr. Months in Hone Every-day Bk. II. 1284 Even the elegant and fragile heathbell, or harebell, has not yet quite disappeared. |