n. 1. See delphinium. 2. Any of various annual plants of the genus Consolida of the buttercup family, closely related to and resembling the delphiniums and widely cultivated as ornamentals. [So called because the spur containing the nectaries of a larkspur flower resembles the characteristic long spurlike claw of the rear toe of a lark.] |
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