aquilegian.
/akwɪˈliːdʒ(ɪ)ə/ Botany.
A plant of the genus of this name consisting of several species of ranunculaceous plants, the flowers of which are pentamerous with spurred petals; = columbine n.2 1. The genus-name Aquilegia is in Lyte 1578, Gerarde 1597, etc.
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1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball 166 This floure is now called in Latine Aquilegia, or Aquileia.]
1599 A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover Bk. Physicke 203/1 Boyle Aquilege, and redde Nettles.
1871 W. Robinson Hardy Flowers i. ix. 31 The larger type of alpine and herbaceous plants, beginning with such as the Aquilegias, and rising to the finer Phloxes.
1920 Chambers's Jrnl. May 326/2 Old-world flowers..as delphinium and antirrhinum and aquilegia.
1931 H. H. Thomas Amateur's Week-end Gardening Bk. 100 The Columbine or Aquilegia is one of the most delightful of early summer flowers.
1934 G. A. R. Phillips Aristocrats of Flower Border viii. 109 Aquilegias are mid-border plants.
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