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Columbine
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- 1 Pertaining to a dove or pigeon. archaic
"It is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with the columbine innocency, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent."
- 1 A census-designated place in Arapahoe County and Jefferson County, Colorado, United States.
"In 1999 at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, 18-year-old Eric Harris and 17-year-old Dylan Klebold killed 12 of their fellow students and a teacher before taking their own lives in the school library."
- 2 The sweetheart of Harlequin in old pantomimes.
"The Clown is a London cockney, with a prodigious eye to his own comfort and muffins,—a Lord Mayor's fool, who loved "everything that was good;" and Columbine is the boarding-school girl, ripe for running away with, and making a dance of it all the way from Chelsea to Gretna Green."
- 1 Any plant of the genus Aquilegia, having distinctive bell-shaped flowers with spurs on each petal.
- 2 An incident in which someone shoots multiple people at a school. slang
"Research indicates that many children are afraid of “a Columbine” occurring in their school, or are concerned about other forms of school violence (Aronson, 2000; Garbarino & deLara, 2002; Gaughan et al., 2001; National Association of Attorneys General, 2000)."
- 3 a plant of the genus Aquilegia having irregular showy spurred flowers; north temperate regions especially mountains wordnet
Etymology
From the Latin colombina herba (“dove-like plant”), the flower being likened to five clustered pigeons.
From Middle English columbyne, from Old French columbin (French colombin), from Latin columbinus, from columba (“dove, pigeon”).
From columbine.
From the school shooting that occurred at Columbine High School in 1999.
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