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- noun aromatic annual with a tall stems of small whitish flowers enclosed in a greatly enlarged saucer-shaped or bell-shaped calyx
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qroqqa commented on the word bells of ireland
bells of Ireland. A member of Lamiaceae with a spike of flowers with large green calyx and small white corolla. Not from Ireland. Linnaeus named the genus Moluccella, from the Moluccas. Not from the Moluccas either.
July 11, 2008