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 Mourn·ing, a.
 1. Grieving; sorrowing; lamenting.
 2. Employed to express sorrow or grief; worn or used as appropriate to the condition of one bereaved or sorrowing; as, mourning garments; a mourning ring; a mourning pin, and the like.
 Mourning bride Bot., a garden flower (Scabiosa atropurpurea) with dark purple or crimson flowers in flattened heads.
 Mourning dove Zool., a wild dove (Zenaidura macroura) found throughout the United States; -- so named from its plaintive note. Called also Carolina dove. See Illust. under Dove.
 Mourning warbler Zool., an American ground warbler (Geothlypis Philadelphia).  The male has the head, neck, and chest, deep ash-gray, mixed with black on the throat and chest; other lower parts are pure yellow.
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 Scabiosa atropurpurea
      n : Old World annual having fragrant purple to deep crimson
          flower heads; naturalized in United States [syn: sweet
          scabious, pincushion flower, mournful widow]