Columbine

kol′um-bīn, adj. of or like a dove: dove-coloured.— n. a genus of plants ( Aquilegia ) having five coloured sepals, which soon fall off, and five petals, each terminating below in a horn-shaped spur or nectary: in pantomimes, the sweetheart of Harlequin (q.v.).— ns. Columbā′rium , a dovecot or pigeon-house: one of the niches or pigeon-holes in a particular kind of sepulchral chamber in which the urns containing the ashes of dead bodies burned were deposited; Col′umbary , a pigeon-house or dovecot. [L. columba , a dove.]