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columbine
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.

columbine
{a} of, like or belonging to a pigeon, a genus of plants
Columbine
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
columbine
Any plant of the genus Aquilegia, having distinctive bell-shaped flowers with spurs on each petal
columbine
The mistress or sweetheart of Harlequin in pantomimes
columbine
A plant of several species of the genus Aquilegia; as, A
columbine
Canadensis, the wild red columbine of North America
columbine
{i} female character in Italian comedies of the 1600's; plant with five-petaled flowers and long spurs
columbine
vulgaris, or the common garden columbine; A
columbine
a plant of the genus Aquilegia having irregular showy spurred flowers; north temperate regions especially mountains
columbine
Of or pertaining to a dove; dovelike; dove-colored
columbine
genus aquilegia
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