| Columbine 1. (a.) Of or pertaining to a dove; dovelike; dove-colored. 2. (n.) A plant of several species of the genus Aquilegia; as, A. vulgaris, or the common garden columbine; A. Canadensis, the wild red columbine of North America. 3. (n.) The mistress or sweetheart of Harlequin in pantomimes. Thesaurus Entries Roman-nosed, altricial, anserine, anserous, aquiline-nosed, avian, avicular, beak-nosed, beak-shaped, beaked, bill-like, bill-shaped, billed, birdlike, birdy, clawlike, columbine, crookbilled, crooked, crooknosed, dovelike, down-curving, goosy, hamate, hamiform, hamulate, hawklike, hooked, hooklike, nesting, nidicolous, nidificant, oscine, parrot-nosed, passerine, psittacine, rasorial, rhamphoid, rostrate, rostriform, unciform, uncinate, unguiform |