columbo vs deer's-ears

columbo and deer's-ears both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
columbo	Yes	No	No	No
deer's-ears	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, columbo and deer's-ears are synonyms defined as:

columbo and deer's-ears: any of various tall perennial herbs constituting the genus Frasera; widely distributed in warm dry upland areas of California, Oregon, and Washington

Other synonyms of columbo include American columbo, American gentian, deer's-ear, pyramid plant.

columbo (noun)	deer's-ears (noun)
any of various tall perennial herbs constituting the genus Frasera; widely distributed in warm dry upland areas of California, Oregon, and Washington	any of various tall perennial herbs constituting the genus Frasera; widely distributed in warm dry upland areas of California, Oregon, and Washington