Columbine
a popular name for Aquilegia vulgaris or other species of the genus Aquilegia. The common columbine has drooping purplish-blue flowers with five flat sepals; five petals, with long spurs, often curved; five follicles, the root-leaves twice or thrice ternate, the others singly ternate. The word is also applied to a female character in the Italian comedy, the "Daughter of Cassandra," and the mythic Harlequin, and to the female dancer in the English pantomime.
COLUMBITE. A mineral containing iron, columbium, and usually manganese and and tantalum. Its formula is commonly given as (Fe, Mn) (Cb, Ta)2O3. Occurs brown or black in color; specific gravity as opaque orthorhombic crystals, dark about 6.0. The mineral is found in Colorado, Connecticut, Maine, North Carolina, South Dakota, Virginia, and in Norway, and is of interest because the element Columbium was first discovered in it by given because the mineral in which the C. Hatchett, in 1802, the name being metal was found came from America. given because the mineral in which the