larkspur
any of several plants belonging to the genera Delphinium and Consolida, of the buttercup family, characterized by the spur-shaped formation of the calyx and petals.
Origin of larkspur
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How to use larkspur in a sentence
I am dreaming of the day I can see a chestnut-collared larkspur, present and rare on the prairie.
Book Bag: Terry Tempest Williams’s Birding Bibles | Terry Tempest Williams | March 27, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTGWS would make the trip to Vail just for the open kitchen and stellar service of larkspur.
Even as the gardener predicted, the tender little larkspur plants mysteriously died.
The Idyl of Twin Fires | Walter Prichard EatonThe bees droned, and the wheeling buzzard suddenly dropped like a plummet a hundred yards through the larkspur blue.
Mushroom Town | Oliver OnionsAnd the girls decorated the tables with flowers—blue larkspur and white canterbury bells.
The Wouldbegoods | E. Nesbit
It is evident that the flower here described is not our modern hyacinth, but some species of iris or larkspur.
Stories of Old Greece and Rome | Emilie Kip BakerShe reached in and snipped off a spire of larkspur from the very back of the border, then stood back to see what had happened.
The Camerons of Highboro | Beth B. Gilchrist
British Dictionary definitions for larkspur
/ (ˈlɑːkˌspɜː) /
any of various ranunculaceous plants of the genus Delphinium, with spikes of blue, pink, or white irregular spurred flowers
Origin of larkspur
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