campanulate

American

[kam-pan-yuh-lit, -leyt] / kæmˈpæn yə lɪt, -ˌleɪt /

adjective

bellshaped, as a corolla.

campanulate British

/ kæmˈpænjʊlɪt, -ˌleɪt /

adjective

(esp of flower corollas) shaped like a bell

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Other Word Forms

subcampanulate adjective

Etymology

Origin of campanulate

From the New Latin word campānulātus, dating back to 1660–70. See campanula, -ate ¹

Example Sentences

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Among the extravagant oddities was a shrubby tender vine whose common name, monastery bells, speaks to its big, squat campanulate flower, unlike any other I have seen.

From Washington Post

Receptacle rising from the apex, conic or hemispheric, concave beneath and expanded into usually 4 large campanulate 1-fruited involucres.

From Project Gutenberg

B. grandiflora, 1 ft., has large bluish-purple flowers; B. coccinea, 2 to 3 ft., has tubular campanulate nodding flowers of a rich crimson with green tips.

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Involucre.—Silky hairy; broadly campanulate; with imbricated, appressed bracts.

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Pileus slender, campanulate, usually striate, margin straight and adpressed to stem when young.

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