brown bells

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   California herb with brownish-purple or greenish bell-shaped flowers

   SynonymsFritillaria micranthaFritillaria parviflora

   Broaderfritillary

Questions about brown bells

What does brown bells mean?

brown bells means "California herb with brownish-purple or greenish bell-shaped flowers".

What is another word for brown bells?

Close synonyms include Fritillaria micrantha, Fritillaria parviflora. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is brown bells a common word?

brown bells is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.