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columbine
(encz) | columbine,kolombína n: Zdeněk Brož |
Columbine
(gcide) | Columbine \Col"um*bine\, a. [L. columbinus, fr. columba dove.]
Of or pertaining to a dove; dovelike; dove-colored.
"Columbine innocency." --Bacon.
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Columbine
(gcide) | Columbine \Col"um*bine\, n. [LL. columbina, L. columbinus
dovelike, fr. columba dove: cf. F. colombine. Perh. so called
from the beaklike spurs of its flowers.]
1. (Bot.) A plant of several species of the genus
Aquilegia; as, Aquilegia vulgaris, or the common
garden columbine; Aquilegia Canadensis, the wild red
columbine of North America.
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2. The mistress or sweetheart of Harlequin in pantomimes.
--Brewer.
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columbine
(wn) | columbine
n 1: a plant of the genus Aquilegia having irregular showy
spurred flowers; north temperate regions especially
mountains [syn: columbine, aquilegia, aquilege] |
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