Columbine

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Any of various perennial herbs of the genus Aquilegia native to north temperate regions, cultivated for their showy, variously colored flowers that have petals with long hollow spurs. Also called aquilegia.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Any plant of the genus Aquilegia, having distinctive bell-shaped flowers with spurs on each petal.
  • adj. Pertaining to a dove or pigeon.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Of or pertaining to a dove; dovelike; dove-colored.
  • n. A plant of several species of the genus Aquilegia.
  • n. The mistress or sweetheart of Harlequin in pantomimes.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Pertaining to or having the characters of a pigeon or dove; in ornithology, belonging to the Columbæ or Columbinæ; columbaceous.
  • Of a dove-color; resembling the neck of a dove in color.
  • n. One of the Columbæ or Columbidæ.
  • n. The popular name of plants of the genus Aquilegia (which see).
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a plant of the genus Aquilegia having irregular showy spurred flowers; north temperate regions especially mountains
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