Columbine
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Columbine may refer to:
- Aquilegia, the genus of perennial flowering plants called columbines. One variety, Rocky Mountain Columbine, is the state flower of Colorado
- Wild Columbine, a variety of Aquilegia
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- Columbine High School, a school in Jefferson County, Colorado
- Columbine High School massacre, a 1999 school shooting in the United States
- Bowling for Columbine, Michael Moore's Academy Award-winning documentary about the gun culture of the United States.
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- Columbina (also "Columbine"), one of the stock characters played in the Commedia dell'arte
- Columbine, Colorado, an unincorporated census-designated place (CDP) in Jefferson County, Colorado, near the cities of Denver and Littleton
- The Columbine Mine massacre, a 1927 mine strike & massacre at Columbine Coal Mine
- Columbine II and Columbine III, the Lockheed Constellation presidential aircraft used by US President Dwight D. Eisenhower, so named the state flower of wife Mamie's home state of Colorado
- Columbine, a locomotive of the Grand Junction Railway, now preserved at the Science Museum (London)
- Columbine (racehorse), an unconsidered competitor who failed to complete the course in the 1840 Grand National