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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024col•um•bine1 /ˈkɑləmˌbaɪn/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- Plant Biologya plant of the buttercup family, having bright white and blue flowers.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024col•um•bine1 (kol′əm bīn′),USA pronunciation n. - Plant Biologya plant, Aquilegia caerula, of the buttercup family, having showy flowers with white petals and white to blue sepals that form long, backward spurs: the state flower of Colorado.
- Plant Biologyany of various other plants of the genus Aquilegia, characterized by divided leaves and showy flowers of various colors.
- Medieval Latin columbīna (herba) dovelike (plant), feminine of Latin columbīnus (see columbine2); the inverted flower looks like a group of doves
- Middle English 1275–1325
- Birdsof a dove.
- dovelike;
dove-colored.
- Latin columbīnus, equivalent. to columb(a) dove + -īnus -ine1
- Middle English 1350–1400
- Literature, Literaturea female character in commedia dell'arte and pantomime: sweetheart of Harlequin.
- a female given name.
- Italian Columbina literally, dovelike girl; see columbine2
- 1720–30
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: columbine /ˈkɒləmˌbaɪn/ n - any plant of the ranunculaceous genus Aquilegia, having purple, blue, yellow, or red flowers with five spurred petals
Also called: aquilegia
Etymology: 13th Century: from Medieval Latin columbīna herba dovelike plant, from Latin columbīnus dovelike, from the resemblance of the flower to a group of doves Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: Columbine /ˈkɒləmˌbaɪn/ n - (later) the sweetheart of Harlequin in English pantomime
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