Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - columbine

 noun  Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Medieval Latin columbina, from Latin, feminine of columbinus like a dove, from columba dove; akin to Old High German holuntar elder tree, Greek kolymbos a small grebe, kelainos black  Date: 14th century any of a genus (Aquilegia) of plants of the buttercup family with irregular showy spurred flowers: as  a. a red-flowered plant (A. canadensis) of eastern North America  b. a blue-flowered plant (A. caerulea) of the Rocky Mountains COLUMBINE  noun  Etymology: Italian Colombina  Date: 1719 the saucy sweetheart of Harlequin in comedy and pantomime