columbine

English - Turkish

Definition of columbine in English Turkish dictionary

(isim) Sultan küpesi çiçeği

hasekiküpesi

kumru gibi

Aquilegia vulgaris

{i} palyaçonun metresi (İtalyan komedisi)

kumru ile ilgili

hasekikupesi

{i} kısa etekli dansçı (İngiliz pandomini)

hasekiküpe

kumru renkli

Related Terms

common columbine

(Endüstri) Sultan küpesi çiçeği

red columbine

(Botanik, Bitkibilim) Kızıl hasekiküpesi

English - English

Definition of columbine in English English dictionary

pertaining to a dove or pigeon

Late C14: Com forþ now, wiþ þyne eyen columbyn! / How fairer been þy brestes þan is wyn! — Geoffrey Chaucer, The Merchant's Tale.

Any plant of the genus Aquilegia, having distinctive bell-shaped flowers with spurs on each petal

{a} of, like or belonging to a pigeon, a genus of plants

a character in old European plays, who is the woman Harlequin loves. Any of approximately 70 species of perennial herbaceous plants constituting the genus Aquilegia, in the buttercup family, native to Europe and North America. They are distinctive for their five-petaled flowers with long, backward-extending spurs. Sepals and petals are brightly coloured. A. caerulea and A. chysantha are native to the Rocky Mountains. The wild columbine of North America (A. canadensis), bearing red flowers with touches of yellow, grows in woods and on rocky ledges from southern Canada southward. Many garden hybrids are cultivated for their showy flowers

The mistress or sweetheart of Harlequin in pantomimes

A plant of several species of the genus Aquilegia; as, A

Canadensis, the wild red columbine of North America

{i} female character in Italian comedies of the 1600's; plant with five-petaled flowers and long spurs

vulgaris, or the common garden columbine; A

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

Of or pertaining to a dove; dovelike; dove-colored

genus aquilegia

Related Terms

The columbine

dovesfoot

blue columbine

columbine of the Rocky Mountains having long-spurred blue flowers

Hyphenation

Col·um·bine

Turkish pronunciation

kälımbayn

Pronunciation

/ˈkäləmˌbīn/ /ˈkɑːləmˌbaɪn/

Etymology

() Old French columbin (French columbin), from Latin columbinus, from columba ‘dove, pigeon’. In the noun sense, from Latin colombina herba ‘dove-like plant’, the flower being likened to five clustered pigeons.