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A Eurasian plant of the bellflower family, some kinds of which have a root that can be eaten in salads.
a Mediterranean plant with a long, narrow spike of bluish flowers and a thick taproot (Campanula rapunculus, family Campanulaceae).('horned rampion') a grassland plant with dense rounded flower heads of inward curving, typically blue, tubular flowers (genus Phyteuma, family Campanulaceae).
Late 16th century from a variant of medieval Latin rapuncium; compare with German Rapunzel ‘lamb's lettuce’.