(n)smooth erect herb of eastern North America having entire leaves and showy blue flowers that are pink in bud, Syn.Virginia cowslip, Mertensia virginica
(n)one of the most handsome prairie wildflowers having large erect bell-shaped bluish flowers; of moist places in prairies and fields from eastern Colorado and Nebraska south to New Mexico and Texas, Syn.tulip gentian, bluebell, Eustoma grandiflorum
n. (Bot.) (a) A plant of the genus Campanula, especially the Campanula rotundifolia, which bears blue bell-shaped flowers; the harebell. (b) A plant of the genus Scilla (Scilla nutans). [ 1913 Webster ]