columbine
可伦坡,可兰白克,可兰经,可伦贝尔
Definitions
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- : 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.
- : any of various other plants of the genus Aquilegia, characterized by divided leaves and showy flowers of various colors.
Examples
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.
Gun massacres like Newtown and Columbine can destroy communities, families, and schools.
But school-based arrests in Pennsylvania alone went up by 300 percent since Columbine.
“Before Columbine, juvenile crime had been coming down,” May said.
In a kind of manifesto, the Virginia Tech killer had written about the two Columbine killers.
Harlequin had recruited a columbine and a shepherdess, and he introduced these ladies as partners for the promised minuet.
As a favourite garden flower, the Columbine found its way into heraldic blazonry.
As a garden plant the Columbine still holds a favourite place.
The many species of owls, too, have p. 187not been noticed; and no mention made of the Columbine tribe.
But any though he is, he is as capable of devotion to his Columbine as Punchinello, and remains faithfully mated year after year.