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AVENS

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Meaning:

Any of various perennials of the genus Geum having usually pinnate basal leaves and variously colored flowers

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("avens" is a kind of...):

subshrub; suffrutex (low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "avens"):

Geum alleppicum strictum; Geum strictum; yellow avens (erect subshrub with deep yellow flowers; Europe and Asia and North America)

bennet; Geum canadense; white avens (North American white-flowered avens)

Geum macrophyllum; yellow avens (hairy yellow-flowered plant of eastern Asia and North America)

chocolate root; Geum rivale; Indian chocolate; purple avens; water avens (erect perennial of north temperate zone having pinnate leaves and a few nodding flowers with a brown-purple calyx and orange and pink petals)

Geum triflorum; prairie smoke; purple avens (North American perennial with hairy basal pinnate leaves and purple flowers and plume-tipped fruits)

clover-root; cloveroot; Geum urbanum; herb bennet; wood avens (hairy Eurasian plant with small yellow flowers and an astringent root formerly used medicinally)

bennet; Geum virginianum; white avens (avens of Virginia having pale or greenish yellow flowers)

Holonyms ("avens" is a member of...):

genus Geum; Geum (avens)

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