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aquilegia Bot.|ækwɪˈliːdʒ(ɪ)ə| Also 6 aquilege. [ad. med.L. aquilēja, aquilēgia.] A plant of the genus of this name consisting of several species of ranunculaceous plants, the flowers of which are pentamerous with spurred petals; = columbine n.2 1. The genus-name Aquilegia is in Lyte 1578, Gerarde 1597, etc.
[1578Lyte Dodoens 166 This floure is now called in Latine Aquilegia, or Aquileia.] 1599A. M. Gabelhouer's Bk. Physic 203/1 Boyle Aquilege, and redde Nettles. 1871W. Robinson Hardy Flowers i. ix. 31 The larger type of alpine and herbaceous plants, beginning with such as the Aquilegias, and rising to the finer Phloxes. 1920Chambers's Jrnl. May 326/2 Old-world flowers..as delphinium and antirrhinum and aquilegia. 1931H. H. Thomas Amateur's Week-end Gard. Book 100 The Columbine or Aquilegia is one of the most delightful of early summer flowers. 1934G. A. Phillips Aristocrats of Flower Border viii. 109 Aquilegias are mid-border plants. |