different between columbine vs columbia

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From the Latin colombina herba (“dove-like plant”), the flower being likened to five clustered pigeons.

columbine (plural columbines)

Any plant of the genus Aquilegia, having distinctive bell-shaped flowers with spurs on each petal.

From Middle English columbyne, from Old French columbin (French colombin), from Latin columbinus, from columba (“dove, pigeon”).

columbine (comparative more columbine, superlative most columbine)

(archaic) Pertaining to a dove or pigeon.
- late 1500s, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Merchant's Tale:
  Com forþ now, wiþ þyne eyen columbyn! / How fairer been þy brestes þan is wyn!

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