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US
/ˈkɑɫəmˌbaɪn/
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[ UK /kˈɒləmbˌaɪn/ ]
[ UK /kˈɒləmbˌaɪn/ ]
NOUN
- a plant of the genus Aquilegia having irregular showy spurred flowers; north temperate regions especially mountains
How To Use columbine In A Sentence
- These columbines have bell-shaped flowers, spurred petals, and self-coloured tepals.
- My favorite imitator, the Hinckley columbine, is like a butter-yellow, otherworldly bird.
- The upper bed is mostly for perennials, including red-and-white columbines, purple blue campanulas, and tall blue delphiniums fronted by yellow and orange Iceland poppies.
- Columbine, aquilegia ‘Magpie’ resembles an elaborate bonnet to be worn on special occasions for the more fashion forward among the fae. Fairies Part One « Fairegarden
- She also uses some uncommon remedies such as geranium for colds and columbine for scrofula.
- Next, to create a casual country look, she interspersed three large fieldstones in the bed, then planted flowering perennials such as astilbe, columbine, delphinium, and hellebore among them.
- The upper bed is mostly for perennials, including red-and-white columbines, purple blue campanulas, and tall blue delphiniums fronted by yellow and orange Iceland poppies.
- Two or three years 'growth will raise these plants above all grass and low vegetation, and a sprinkling of laurel, rhododendron, hardy ferns and a few intermingling colonies of native wild flowers such as bloodroot, false Solomon's seal and columbines for the East, as Studies of Trees
- The color scheme runs along the high ridges from blue to rosy purple, carmine and coral red; along the water borders it is chiefly white and yellow where the mimulus makes a vivid note, running into red when the two schemes meet and mix about the borders of the meadows, at the upper limit of the columbine. The Land of Little Rain
- Among the wildflowers are a red columbine, aster, figwort, wild sarsaparilla, fleabane, and avens.