Definition of "bellwort" [bell•wort]

• 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. Also called merry-bells. (noun)

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• "Solomon's-seal (_Polygonatum_) (Fig.  83, _B_), bellwort (_Uvularia_), and others."
• "The May flowers and bloodroot have gone, the anemonies and bellwort have come and the violets are coming."
• "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."