mission bells

Questions about mission bells

What does mission bells mean?

mission bells means "herb of southwestern United States having dark purple bell-shaped flowers mottled with green". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for mission bells?

Close synonyms include black fritillary, Fritillaria biflora, rice-grain fritillary, Fritillaria affinis, Fritillaria lanceolata. 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 mission bells a common word?

mission bells is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.