campanulate

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Tearing away the calyx, I find the flower to have been held by it as a lion might hold his prey by the loins if he missed its throat; the blue petals being really campanulate, and the flower best described as a dark bluebell, seized and crushed almost flat by its own calyx in a rage.

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  1. adjective Botany Shaped like a bell, as certain flowers are.

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  • The gills are sometimes brightly colored MYCENA = a fungus In this genus also the stem is cartilaginous, the cap is sometimes bell-shaped (campanulate) and slender. —  Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners
  • Lenzites Mushrooms that have the Cap bell-shaped (campanulate) and Marked with Lines (striate). —  Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners
  • It was growing amidst some ballast plants, the only mushroom there COPRINUS MICACEUS = mica The Glistening Coprinus Cap+ varies from buff to tawny yellow, 1 to 2 inches broad, bell-shaped (campanulate) or conical (cone-shaped), thin, marked with lengthwise lines, which extend half-way up from the margin. —  Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners
  • We found many specimens in July and August CORTINARIUS CORRUGATUS = wrinkled The Wrinkled Cortinarius Cap+ gray, with a pinkish-yellowish tint, 2 inches broad, campanulate, sticky, broken up into squamules, pellicle scaling, margin thin. —  Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners
  • +Cap+ 2 to 4 inches broad, ovate, campanulate, then spreading, obtuse, with a cuticle, sticky in moist weather, rarely sprinkled with one or two fragments of the volva, the margin regular, even. —  Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners
 

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  1. from Middle Latin campanulatus, from campanula, a little bell, diminutive of campana, a bell: see campana.
 

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/kæmˈpænjulət/
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