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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A plant of the genus Delphinium, especially any of several tall cultivated varieties having palmate leaves and long racemes of showy, variously colored spurred flowers. Also called larkspur.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. An extensive genus of the natural order Ranunculaceæ, consisting of annual or perennial herbaceous plants, with usually blue, purple, or white flowers. The flowers are in loose racemes, and are very irregular, consisting of five colored sepals and only two conspicuous petals, the spurs of which are inclosed in the long spur of the upper sepal. There are 50 species or more, scattered over the northern temperate zone, 20 of which are found in the United States. Two species peculiar to California have red or yellowish flowers. Many are cultivated in gardens under the name of larkspur, chiefly D. Ajacis and D. Consolida of Europe, and D. elatum from Siberia, with numerous hybrids. One species, the D. Staphisagria, commonly called stavesacre, yields the vegetable alkaloid delphinine.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A cultivated plant, belonging to the genus Delphinium, with tall blue-colored spikes containing flowers.
  2. n. A shade of blue, named for the flowers.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. any plant of the genus Delphinium having palmately divided leaves and showy spikes of variously colored spurred flowers; some contain extremely poisonous substances

Etymologies

  1. New Latin Delphinium, genus name, from Greek delphinion, larkspur, probably diminutive of delphīs, delphīn-, dolphin (from the shape of the nectary). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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