Bluebells are plants that have blue bell-shaped flowers on thin upright stems. Bluebells flower in the spring.
bluebell in British English
(ˈbluːˌbɛl)
noun
1. Also called: wild hyacinth, wood hyacinth
a European liliaceous woodland plant, Hyacinthoides (or Endymion) non-scripta, having a one-sided cluster of blue bell-shaped flowers
2. Also called: Spanish bluebell
a similar and related plant, hispanica, widely grown in gardens and becoming naturalized
3. a Scot name for harebell
4.
any of various other plants with blue bell-shaped flowers
bluebell in American English
(ˈbluˌbɛl)
noun
any of various plants (esp. of the genera Campanula and Mertensia of the bellflower and borage families) with blue, bell-shaped flowers, as the harebell or Virginia bluebell