| collins | (n) English writer noted for early detective novels (1824-1889), Syn. Wilkie Collins, William Wilkie Collins |
| collins | (n) tall iced drink of liquor (usually gin) with fruit juice, Syn. Tom Collins |
| collinsia | (n) genus of hardy annual herbs of western United States, Syn. genus Collinsia |
| collinsonia | (n) small genus of perennial erect or spreading aromatic herbs; United States, Syn. genus Collinsonia |
| blue-eyed mary | (n) eastern United States plant with whorls of blue-and-white flowers, Syn. Collinsia verna |
| foster | (n) United States songwriter whose songs embody the sentiment of the South before the American Civil War (1826-1864), Syn. Stephen Collins Foster, Stephen Foster |
| horse balm | (n) erect perennial strong-scented with serrate pointed leaves and a loose panicle of yellowish flowers; the eastern United States, Syn. stone-root, horseweed, Collinsonia canadensis, richweed, stone root, stoneroot |
| maiden blue-eyed mary | (n) small widely branching western plant with tiny blue-and-white flowers; British Columbia to Ontario and south to California and Colorado, Syn. Collinsia parviflora |
| purple chinese houses | (n) white and lavender to pale-blue flowers grow in perfect rings of widely spaced bands around the stems forming a kind of pagoda; California, Syn. Collinsia bicolor, Collinsia heterophylla, innocense |
