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a garden plant with attractive leaves and pointed blue flowers that hang down 耧斗菜 - Columbine[singular]
a female character in traditional Italian theatre 科隆比纳（意大利传统戏剧中的女角）
Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French colombine, from medieval Latin colombina (herba) ‘dovelike (plant)’, from Latin columba ‘dove’ (from the supposed resemblance of the flower to a cluster of five doves).