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AQUILEGIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does aquilegia mean?
• AQUILEGIA (noun)
The noun AQUILEGIA has 1 sense:
1. a plant of the genus Aquilegia having irregular showy spurred flowers; north temperate regions especially mountains
Familiarity information: AQUILEGIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A plant of the genus Aquilegia having irregular showy spurred flowers; north temperate regions especially mountains
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
aquilege; aquilegia; columbine
Hypernyms ("aquilegia" is a kind of...):
flower (a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "aquilegia"):
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 ("aquilegia" is a member of...):
genus Aquilegia (columbine)
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