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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Any of various perennial herbs of the genus Aquilegia native to north temperate regions, cultivated for their showy, variously colored flowers that have petals with long hollow spurs. Also called aquilegia.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Pertaining to or having the characters of a pigeon or dove; in ornithology, belonging to the Columbæ or Columbinæ; columbaceous.
  2. Of a dove-color; resembling the neck of a dove in color.
  3. n. One of the Columbæ or Columbidæ.
  4. n. The popular name of plants of the genus Aquilegia (which see). The common European columbine, A. vulgaris, is a favorite garden-flower, and owes its name to the fancied resemblance of its petals and sepals to the heads of pigeons round a dish, a favorite device of ancient artists.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Any plant of the genus Aquilegia, having distinctive bell-shaped flowers with spurs on each petal.
  2. adj. archaic Pertaining to a dove or pigeon.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Of or pertaining to a dove; dovelike; dove-colored.
  2. n. (Bot.) A plant of several species of the genus Aquilegia.
  3. n. The mistress or sweetheart of Harlequin in pantomimes.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a plant of the genus Aquilegia having irregular showy spurred flowers; north temperate regions especially mountains

Etymologies

  1. From Old French columbin (French columbin), from Latin columbinus, from dove, pigeon. The noun sense is from the Latin colombina herba ("dove-like plant"), the flower being likened to five clustered pigeons. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, from Medieval Latin columbīna, from feminine of Latin columbīnus, dovelike (from the resemblance of the inverted flower to a cluster of doves), from columba, dove. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (2)

Words with the same meaning

  1. dovelike
  1. dove-colored

hypernyms (1)

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  1. flower

hyponyms (8)

Words that are more specific

  1. aquilegia canadensis
  1. aquilegia caerulea
  1. aquilegia vulgaris
  1. meetinghouse
  1. granny's bonnets
  1. honeysuckle
  1. aquilegia scopulorum calcarea
  1. blue columbine

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Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. hyacinth
  2. larkspur
  3. lupine
  4. mignonette
  1. hibiscus
  2. peony
  3. jasmine
  4. daisy
  1. poppy
  2. azaleas
  3. geranium
  4. gentian
  1. vetch
  2. tulip
  3. heliotrope
  4. orchid
  1. clematis
  2. hydrangea
  3. chrysanthemum
  4. goldenrod
  1. primrose
  2. camellia

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. granny's bonnets
  2. meetinghouse
  3. aquilegia caerulea
  4. aquilegia canadensis
  5. aquilegia scopulorum calcarea
  1. aquilegia vulgaris
  2. blue columbine
  3. honeysuckle
  4. culverwort
  5. aquilegia
  1. cullumbine
  2. spur
  3. dove's-foot
  4. culverkey
  5. jack-in-trousers
  1. peristeromorphic
  2. sowdwort
  3. capon's-tail
  4. didunculidæ
  5. ground-bird
  1. genus aquilegia
  2. nectary
  3. lophyrus
  4. pantomime
  5. peristeromorphæ

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  1. flower
  2. birds
  3. bird
  1. plant
  2. blue
  3. pigeon
  1. pigeonhole
  2. dovecote
  3. pigeonier
  1. dove
  2. fertilizer
  3. columbarium
  1. guano
  2. puple
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  • fbharjo columbine - The inverted flower supposedly resembles a cluster of five doves. Oct 23, 2010

  • reesetee Er...no, palooka, not yet! I'll let you know when...uh...monsoon season hits!

    *mumbles to self* Oct 15, 2007

  • palooka You probably have friends in Pennsylvania you could relay through reesetee. Is it monsoon season there in India yet old wise one?
    Oct 15, 2007

  • reesetee Uselessness lives in New Mexico?? I had no idea.

    Meantime, I'll have to find some way to make it look as though I'm posting from Pennsylvania. For palooka's sake. Oct 15, 2007

  • jennarenn You must be practicing for your TS clearance!

    Oct 15, 2007

  • uselessness Quiet, jennarenn, you'll blow my cover! I've been so careful keeping my location a secret... Oct 15, 2007

  • sonofgroucho We could all falsely geotag ourselves to make it look as if we live in much more exotic places than we do: like Albuquerque, for example. Oct 15, 2007

  • jennarenn And yet, you keep telling us all about New Mexico. Oct 15, 2007

  • uselessness But... but... I don't want people to know I live in Albuquerque!! Oct 15, 2007

  • reesetee Maybe not words, but geotagging users would be kind of fun. :-) All voluntary, of course. Oct 15, 2007

  • uselessness How would geotagging apply to words? Well I can see noting regions for local dialects, but most words are pretty universal... Oct 15, 2007

  • sonofgroucho I tag all my photos in Flickr, so it has become a bit of a habit. I'm not sure if we'll ever geotag words in Wordie! Oct 15, 2007

  • rocksinmypockets The tag was a good idea, SonfoGroucho. I have to remember to think about tags as a tool for clarification here. Thanks! Oct 14, 2007

  • sonofgroucho Also known as aquilegia. Oct 14, 2007

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