granny's bonnets

1. 1.

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

   SynonymsAquilegia vulgaris

   Broadercolumbine

   Part ofgenus Aquilegia

Questions about granny's bonnets

What does granny's bonnets mean?

granny's bonnets means "common European columbine having variously colored (white or blue to purple or red) short-spurred flowers; naturalized in United States".

What is another word for granny's bonnets?

Close synonyms include Aquilegia vulgaris. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is granny's bonnets a common word?

granny's bonnets is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.