Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Shaped like a bell.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the form of a bell; bell-shaped.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Bell-shaped.
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- adjective Shaped like a
bell .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective shaped like a bell or campana
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Examples
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+Cap+ reddish-brown, 3 to 6 inches broad, fleshy; when young egg-shaped, and then campanulate, and flattening out with a broad, obtuse umbo.
Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners Caroline A. Burgin
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+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 Caroline A. Burgin
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The flowers are 2 in. long, bell-shaped; the petals shining lemon-yellow, with a tinge of brown on the outside, whilst the sepals are like a number of fish-scales, overlapping each other down the outside of the campanulate tube.
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Pileus, scaly or warted.campanulate. silky, cracked or fibrillose.umbonate. umbilicate. striate.
Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners Caroline A. Burgin
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In this genus also the stem is cartilaginous, the cap is sometimes bell-shaped (campanulate) and slender.
Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners Caroline A. Burgin
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Abdomen with a short petiole to the basal segment, which is very short and campanulate; at its posterior margin are two minute, obscure, pale spots; beneath, the margins of the apical segments are rufo-piceous.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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Abdomen shining and rather finely punctured; the basal segment narrow and campanulate; the margins of the segments thickly fringed with silvery-white hair; the cheeks, sides of the thorax, and beneath the legs and abdomen with scattered long silvery-white hairs.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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Flowers are produced on slender scapes, 3in. to 4in. long, singly, from the long membranous spatha; they are 1¼in. across the expanded perianth, and about the same length; the six divisions are rather longer than the tube, and of a pale yellow or lemon colour; the crown or nectary is campanulate, longer than the petal-like divisions, lobed, fringed, and of a deep yellow colour.
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Abdomen: the basal segment campanulate, the petiole short; a narrow yellow fascia on the apical margin of all the segments.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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_Mushrooms that have the Cap bell-shaped (campanulate) and Marked with
Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners Caroline A. Burgin
fbharjo commented on the word campanulate
camp had a way of shaping the bell curve
July 8, 2010