columbine

noun

Pronunciation: /kəˈlʌm.baɪn/ / /ˈkɒləmˌbaɪn/ / /ˈkɑləmˌbaɪn/

Etymology: From Middle English columbyne, from Old French columbin (French colombin), from Latin columbinus, from columba (“dove, pigeon”).

Pertaining to a dove or pigeon.
“Near-synonyms: columboid, peristeronic”
“It is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with the columbine innocency, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent.”

Etymology: From columbine.

A census-designated place in Arapahoe County and Jefferson County, Colorado, United States.
“In 1999 at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, 18-year-old Eric Harris and 17-year-old Dylan Klebold killed 12 of their fellow students and a teacher before taking their own lives in the school library.”
The sweetheart of Harlequin in old pantomimes.
“The Clown is a London cockney, with a prodigious eye to his own comfort and muffins,—a Lord Mayor's fool, who loved "everything that was good;" and Columbine is the boarding-school girl, ripe for running away with, and making a dance of it all the way from Chelsea to Gretna Green.”

Etymology: From the Latin colombina herba (“dove-like plant”), the flower being likened to five clustered pigeons.

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