columbine

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see also: Columbine

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈkɒləmbaɪn/

Noun

columbine (plural columbines)

1. Any plant of the genus Aquilegia, having distinctive bell-shaped flowers with spurs on each petal.

Translations

• French: ancolie
• German: Akelei
• Italian: colombina, aquilegia
• Portuguese: aquilégia
• Russian: водосбо́р
• Spanish: colombina, aguileña

Adjective

columbine

1. (archaic) Pertaining to a dove or pigeon.
   • late 1500s, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Merchant's Tale:

     Com forþ now, wiþ þyne eyen columbyn! / How fairer been þy brestes þan is wyn!

   • 1605, Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning

     It is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with the columbine innocency, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent.

Translations

• German: (quasi-prefix, e.g. Taubenblume) Tauben, (quasi-prefix, e.g. Tauben-Skabiose) Tauben-
• Russian: голуби́ный

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Columbine

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Proper noun

1. CDP in Arapahoe County, and, infamous for Columbine High School massacre.
2. The sweetheart of Harlequin in old pantomimes.

Noun

columbine (plural columbines)

1. An incident in which someone shoots multiple people at a school.

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