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COLUMBINE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A plant of the genus Aquilegia having irregular showy spurred flowers; north temperate regions especially mountains
Synonyms:
aquilege; aquilegia; columbine
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("columbine" is a kind of...):
flower (a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "columbine"):
Aquilegia canadensis; honeysuckle; meeting house (columbine of eastern North America having long-spurred red flowers)
Aquilegia caerulea; Aquilegia scopulorum calcarea; blue columbine (columbine of the Rocky Mountains having long-spurred blue flowers)
Aquilegia vulgaris; granny's bonnets (common European columbine having variously colored (white or blue to purple or red) short-spurred flowers; naturalized in United States)
Holonyms ("columbine" is a member of...):
genus Aquilegia (columbine)
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