AQUILEGIA

columbine, aquilegia, aquilege

(noun) a plant of the genus Aquilegia having irregular showy spurred flowers; north temperate regions especially mountains

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

From the genus name.

Noun

aquilegia (plural aquilegias)

(botany) Any member of the genus Aquilegia.

Source: Wiktionary



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8 November 2024

REPLACEMENT

(noun) the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another; “replacing the star will not be easy”


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The world’s most expensive coffee costs more than US$700 per kilogram. Asian palm civet – a cat-like creature in Indonesia, eats fruits, including select coffee cherries. It excretes partially digested seeds that produce a smooth, less acidic brew of coffee called kopi luwak.

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