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bluebells: 1 : any of various bellflowers; especially : HAREBELL 2 : any of various plants bearing blue bell-shaped flowers: as a : a European herb (Endymion nonscriptus syn. Scilla nonscripta) of the lily family having scapose racemes of drooping bell-shaped flowers -- called also wild hyacinth b plural : a glabrous erect eastern U.S. herb (Mertensia virginica) of the borage family with entire leaves and showy blue flowers pink in the bud -- called also Virginia bluebells
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turbid: Etymology: Latin turbidus confused, turbid, from turba confusion, crowd, probably from Greek tyrbE confusion 1 a : thick or opaque with or as if with roiled sediment (a turbid stream) b : heavy with smoke or mist 2 a : deficient in clarity or purity : FOUL, MUDDY (turbid depths of degradation and misery -- C. I. Glicksberg) b : characterized by or producing obscurity (as of mind or emotions : an emotionally turbid response) |