Definitions
A flowering plant with distinctive spurred blossoms.
Word origin
From the Latin colombina herba (“dove-like plant”), the flower being likened to five clustered pigeons.
Used in a sentence
“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.”
“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.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Spurred garden bloom”9 letters
02“Spurred flower”9 letters
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