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• A genus within the family Campanulaceae. Consists of annual, perennial, and biennial herbs. Collectively and commonly known as Bellflowers. Bellflowers have characteristically bell-shaped, usually blue flowers, and many are cultivated as garden ornamentals.

• the bellflower family, containing 84 genera and about 2,400 species of mostly herbaceous (nonwoody) plants, many with showy, blue, bell-like flowers.

• in graphic art, comically distorted drawing or likeness, done with the purpose of satirizing or ridiculing its subject.

• Most bush warblers are secretive brown birds, adept at clambering through thick shrubbery, and, though vocal, some will not emerge even in response to playback. Although some genera forage actively in mid and upper levels of vegetation, most forage near the ground and many will not flush if alarmed, instead escaping by walking or scurrying away like a mouse. The tesias and stubtails are the most adroit at running through dense vegetation seemingly without disturbing it at all, and with their short tails, relatively long legs, and bounding gait they look like tiny pittas making their getaway.

• the science that deals with the properties, composition, and structure of substances (defined as elements and compounds), the transformations they undergo, and the energy that is released or absorbed during these processes.

• any of the rod-shaped or threadlike DNA-containing structures of cellular organisms that are located in the nucleus of eukaryotes, are usually ring-shaped in prokaryotes (such as bacteria), and contain all or most of the genes of the organism

• The precise number of chromosomes typical for a given species. In any given asexually reproducing species, the chromosome number is always the same.

• a plant genus in the Rubiacae famil, mostly trees, native to the Andes of South America. The bark of some species contains quinine and is useful against malaria.