Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Any of various perennial plants of the genus Uvularia in the lily family, native to eastern North America and having solitary, nodding, yellow bell-shaped flowers.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A. general name for plants of the natural order Campanulaceæ.
  • noun In the United States, a common name for species of the genus Uvularia, spring flowers of the natural order Liliaceæ.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) A genus of plants (Uvularia) with yellowish bell-shaped flowers.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Any of several perennial plants, of the genus Uvularia, that have yellow, bell-shaped flowers

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun any of various plants of the genus Uvularia having yellowish drooping bell-shaped flowers

Etymologies

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bell +‎ wort

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Examples

  • Solomon's-seal (_Polygonatum_) (Fig.  83, _B_), bellwort (_Uvularia_), and others.

    Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell

  • The May flowers and bloodroot have gone, the anemonies and bellwort have come and the violets are coming.

    Advice and News 1919

  • The May flowers and bloodroot have gone, the anemonies and bellwort have come and the violets are coming.

    Letters to His Children Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 1919

  • The arbutus, all aglow and fragrant beneath its leaves, the purple fringed polygala were past, but they found the pale gold lily of the bellwort, the rust-red bloom of the ginger.

    The Dwelling Place of Light — Volume 3 Winston Churchill 1909

  • The arbutus, all aglow and fragrant beneath its leaves, the purple fringed polygala were past, but they found the pale gold lily of the bellwort, the rust-red bloom of the ginger.

    The Dwelling Place of Light — Complete Winston Churchill 1909

  • The arbutus, all aglow and fragrant beneath its leaves, the purple fringed polygala were past, but they found the pale gold lily of the bellwort, the rust-red bloom of the ginger.

    Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909

  • Ferns, bellwort, wild sarsaparilla, all help to soften our footfalls, while overhead the light daily grows more subdued as the leaf-buds break and the leaves unfold.

    Some Spring Days in Iowa Frederick John Lazell 1905

  • Uvularia sessilifolia (sessile-leaved bellwort), Chesuncook woods, 1853.

    The Maine Woods 1858

  • Uvularia grandiflora (large-flowered bellwort), woods, common.

    The Maine Woods 1858

  • Yellow bellwort hung its fair flowers on every ridge; where the ground grew wet were dog's-tooth violet and chick wintergreen.

    Say and Seal, Volume II Susan Warner 1852

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