Definition of aquilegia in English:
aquilegia
noun ˌakwɪˈliːdʒəˌækwəˈlidʒ(i)ə
A plant of the buttercup family, which bears showy flowers with backward-pointing spurs. Native to temperate regions of the northern hemisphere, it is widely grown in gardens.
Genus Aquilegia, family Ranunculaceae. See also columbine
Example sentencesExamples
- During her long life she gardened in Buckinghamshire and studied genetics at Cambridge before trying her hand at hybridising various flowers, including aquilegias.
- The March before last I bought and planted two specimens of what I thought was an aquilegia I'd admired at the Chelsea Flower Show.
- I have beds full of wild strawberries at Brockhole and there are ferns and aquilegias elsewhere in the garden that I can transplant into the hedge.
- However it has helped me decide how to replant the somewhat shady, sheltered bed on one side of my garden: lots of hellebores, aquilegia, ferns, and variegated ivy creeping up the wall of my neighbour's extension wall.
- Buy seed from reputable seed companies if particular varieties or species are required as aquilegia hybridise easily and may not grow true from seed collected in the garden.
Origin
From medieval Latin, probably from Latin aquilegus 'water-collecting'.
Definition of aquilegia in US English:
aquilegia
nounˌakwəˈlēj(ē)əˌækwəˈlidʒ(i)ə
A plant of the buttercup family, bearing showy flowers with backward-pointing spurs. Native to temperate regions of the northern hemisphere, it is widely grown in gardens.
Genus Aquilegia, family Ranunculaceae. See also columbine
Example sentencesExamples
- I have beds full of wild strawberries at Brockhole and there are ferns and aquilegias elsewhere in the garden that I can transplant into the hedge.
- During her long life she gardened in Buckinghamshire and studied genetics at Cambridge before trying her hand at hybridising various flowers, including aquilegias.
- Buy seed from reputable seed companies if particular varieties or species are required as aquilegia hybridise easily and may not grow true from seed collected in the garden.
- However it has helped me decide how to replant the somewhat shady, sheltered bed on one side of my garden: lots of hellebores, aquilegia, ferns, and variegated ivy creeping up the wall of my neighbour's extension wall.
- The March before last I bought and planted two specimens of what I thought was an aquilegia I'd admired at the Chelsea Flower Show.
Origin
From medieval Latin, probably from Latin aquilegus ‘water-collecting’.