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GRANNY'S BONNETS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does granny's bonnets mean? 

GRANNY'S BONNETS (noun)
  The noun GRANNY'S BONNETS has 1 sense:

1. common European columbine having variously colored (white or blue to purple or red) short-spurred flowers; naturalized in United Statesplay

  Familiarity information: GRANNY'S BONNETS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


GRANNY'S BONNETS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Common European columbine having variously colored (white or blue to purple or red) short-spurred flowers; naturalized in United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Aquilegia vulgaris; granny's bonnets

Hypernyms ("granny's bonnets" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("granny's bonnets" is a member of...):

genus Aquilegia (columbine)


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