GENUS AQUILEGIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Aquilegia mean? 

• GENUS AQUILEGIA (noun)
  The noun GENUS AQUILEGIA has 1 sense:

1. columbine

  Familiarity information: GENUS AQUILEGIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS AQUILEGIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Columbine

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Aquilegia" is a kind of...):

magnoliid dicot genus (genus of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms)

Meronyms (members of "genus Aquilegia"):

aquilege; aquilegia; columbine (a plant of the genus Aquilegia having irregular showy spurred flowers; north temperate regions especially mountains)

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 ("genus Aquilegia" is a member of...):

buttercup family; crowfoot family; family Ranunculaceae; Ranunculaceae (a family of Ranunculaceae)