Definition of "campanulate" [cam•pan•u•late]

• Botany Shaped like a bell, as certain flowers are. (adjective)

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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."
• "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."
• "Abdomen: the basal segment campanulate, the petiole short; a narrow yellow fascia on the apical margin of all the segments."