campanology (kampanoloji)

[ bell-founding, bell-ringing, etc. The enthusiastic notices which the London papers give of the casting of a new big bell for St. Paul's may justify the publication here of a few notes on the subject of cam panology . Philadelphia Record , Jan. 14, 1882, p. 8. 2. A treatise on this art. Campanula (kam-pan'ū-lä), n. [ML., dim. of campana, a bell; from the form of the corolla. 780 Cf. campana, pasque-flower.] 1. A large genus of plants, which gives its name to the natural order Campa nulacea; the bell-flow Flowering Branch of Campa nula Medium. er genus. The species are herbaceous plants, with bell shaped flowers usually of a white or blue color. The most common and best known wild species is the delicate harebell, C. rotun difolia, the bluebell of a bell; bell-shaped. In bot., applied to many parts of plants, particularly to the corolla. In entom., said of surfaces which are rounded at one end, with the sides somewhat incurved and then spreading out to the other end; applied especially to the meta notum, the broader end being the base. The abdomen of an insect is said to be campanulate when the basal joint is slender and the second dilated and hollowed at the apex, so that the third joint is received within it.