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GENUS AQUILEGIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Columbine
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Aquilegia" is a kind of...):
magnoliid dicot genus (genus of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms)
Meronyms (members of "genus Aquilegia"):
aquilege; aquilegia; columbine (a plant of the genus Aquilegia having irregular showy spurred flowers; north temperate regions especially mountains)
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 ("genus Aquilegia" is a member of...):
buttercup family; crowfoot family; family Ranunculaceae; Ranunculaceae (a family of Ranunculaceae)
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