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columbine noun[ C ] uk /ˈkɒl.əm.baɪn/ us /ˈkɑː.ləm.baɪn/ a plant that has brightly coloured flowers with five pointed petals that hang down耧斗菜 Beelde/Photography by Daniel/Moment Open /GettyImages SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Flowers & flowering plants aconite adam-and-eve aeonium African daisy agapanthus eglantine elderflower elephant ear erythronium euphorbia loosestrife lords-and-ladies lotus love-in-a-mist lupin sedum sego lily self-heal senecio sensitive plant
Here I found my first columbine, the beautiful flower that is the emblem of Colorado. The columbine stands tall and still on those green slopes of shadowy grass. The most exquisite and finest of these columbines hid in the shaded nooks, star-sweet in the silent gloom of the woods. There's some big clumps o' columbine in th' garden. Without speaking she had run ahead to pick the white and blue columbines and pink roses. |