Definitions for Columbine

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Columbine col·um·bine

Spelling: [kol-uh m-bahyn]

IPA: /ˈkɒl əmˌbaɪn/

Columbine is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 419 anagrams from letters in Columbine (bceilmnou).

Definitions for Columbine

noun

1. a plant, Aquilegia caerula, of the buttercup family, having showy flowers with white petals and white to blue sepals that form long, backward spurs: the state flower of Colorado.
2. any of various other plants of the genus Aquilegia, characterized by divided leaves and showy flowers of various colors.
3. a female character in commedia dell'arte and pantomime: sweetheart of Harlequin.
4. a female given name.

adjective

1. of a dove.
2. dovelike; dove-colored.

Origin of Columbine

1275-1325; Middle English Medieval Latin columbīna (herba) dovelike (plant), feminine of Latin columbīnus (see columbine²); the inverted flower looks

Examples for Columbine

“Before columbine, juvenile crime had been coming down,” May said.

Gun massacres like Newtown and columbine can destroy communities, families, and schools.

In the eyes of the NRA, Rambo is as grave a threat to gun rights as The Fonz—or the director of Bowling for columbine.

There, still at his brooding, the returning columbine discovered him a half-hour later.

But school-based arrests in Pennsylvania alone went up by 300 percent since columbine.

Climene had been silent and thoughtful, pondering what columbine had called this romance of hers.

Hold on a minute, I'm going to shift my saddle to columbine.

In a kind of manifesto, the Virginia Tech killer had written about the two columbine killers.

Fennel, for instance, emblemised flattery, and columbine ingratitude.

columbine snapped like the shrew she masked: "You little sneak!"