COLUMBINE


Meaning of COLUMBINE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈkä-ləm-ˌbīn ]

noun

Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Medieval Latin columbina, from Latin, feminine of columbinus like a dove, from columba dove; akin to Old High German holuntar elder tree, Greek kolymbos a small grebe, kelainos black

Date: 14th century

: any of a genus ( Aquilegia ) of plants of the buttercup family with irregular showy spurred flowers: as

a. : a red-flowered plant ( A. canadensis ) of eastern North America

b. : a blue-flowered plant ( A. caerulea ) of the Rocky Mountains

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