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hairbell

hairbell is the archaic form of harebell.

Meaning of harebell

Noun

harebell (plural harebells)

  1. A perennial flowering plant, Campanula rotundifolia, native to the Northern Hemisphere, with blue, bell-like flowers.
    • How Snow-drops cold, and blue-eyed Harebells blend / Their tender tears, as o'er the stream they bend […].1789, Erasmus Darwin, The Loves of the Plants, J. Johnson, page 2
  2. foxglove
    • I wonder whether the witches would be wearing on their fingers their ornaments of foxglove blossoms, often called witches' bells or harebells, sometimes known as witches' thimbles.1940, Rosetta E. Clarkson, Green Enchantments: The Magic Spell of Gardens, The Macmillan Company, page 258

Forms of hairbell

pluralhairbells

Questions about hairbell

What is hairbell the archaic form of?
Hairbell is the archaic form of harebell.

Words near hairbell in the dictionary

  1. hair-triggers
  2. hairball
  3. hairballs
  4. hairband
  5. hairbands
  6. hairbell
  7. hairbells
  8. hairbird
  9. hairbirds
  10. hairbow
  11. hairbowed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hairbell (page history and authors); harebell (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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