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COLUMBINE

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Meaning:

A plant of the genus Aquilegia having irregular showy spurred flowers; north temperate regions especially mountains

Synonyms:

aquilege; aquilegia; columbine

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Nouns denoting plants

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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