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Definition of Genus Aquilegia
1. Noun. Columbine.
Group relationships: Buttercup Family, Crowfoot Family, Family Ranunculaceae, Ranunculaceae
Member holonyms: Aquilege, Aquilegia, Columbine, Aquilegia Canadensis, Honeysuckle, Meeting House, Aquilegia Caerulea, Aquilegia Scopulorum Calcarea, Blue Columbine, Aquilegia Vulgaris, Granny's Bonnets
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Aquilegia
Literary usage of Genus Aquilegia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal by Asiatic Society of Bengal, Asiatic Society (Calcutta, India) (1893)
"(7) The genus Aquilegia is one of the more recent among ... (8) The genus Aquilegia
appears to have originated in Eastern Asia, and spread from its ..."
2. Torreya by Torrey Botanical Club (1919)
"Herbarium, 20: Part 4) Mr. EB Payson published a most interesting revision of
the genus Aquilegia as found in North America, and this will naturally serve ..."
3. Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse by Edward Step (1896)
"E. genus Aquilegia AQUILEGIA (Latin, águila, an eagle). Erect perennial herbs
distributed over the north temperate zone ; species generally considered ..."
4. The Floral Cabinet and Magazine of Exotic Botany by George Beauchamp Knowles, Frederic Westcott (1837)
"The genus Aquilegia, according to Professor Ledebour, in the Flora Altaica,
approaches near to the genus Isopyrum, but difiere principally in ..."
5. Flora Indica: Being a Systematic Account of the Plants of British India by Joseph Dalton Hooker, Thomas Thomson (1855)
"... and which have, iu the genus Aquilegia as well as elsewhere, been used as
specitic characters, it is not possible to attach much weight. ..."
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