Columbine

['kɒləmbaɪn] or ['kɑləmbaɪn]

Definition

(noun.) a plant of the genus Aquilegia having irregular showy spurred flowers; north temperate regions especially mountains.

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Definition

(a.) Of or pertaining to a dove; dovelike; dove-colored.

(n.) A plant of several species of the genus Aquilegia; as, A. vulgaris, or the common garden columbine; A. Canadensis, the wild red columbine of North America.

(n.) The mistress or sweetheart of Harlequin in pantomimes.

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Definition

adj. of or like a dove: dove-coloured.—n. a genus of plants (Aquilegia) having five coloured sepals which soon fall off and five petals each terminating below in a horn-shaped spur or nectary: in pantomimes the sweetheart of Harlequin (q.v.).—ns. Columbā′rium a dovecot or pigeon-house: one of the niches or pigeon-holes in a particular kind of sepulchral chamber in which the urns containing the ashes of dead bodies burned were deposited; Col′umbary a pigeon-house or dovecot.

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