aquilegia noun. [akwɪ'li:dʒǝ] Also aquilege. L16.
[medieval Latin aquilegia, -leia, prob. from Latin aquilegus water-collecting.]
Any plant of the genus Aquilegia of the buttercup family, bearing showy flowers whose five petals have backward-directed hollow spurs; a columbine.

► Rare before 19 exc. as mod. Latin genus name.

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