avens
any of various plants of the genus Geum, of the rose family, having yellow, white, or red flowers.
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How to use avens in a sentence
Flowers still clung to many of these stalks—yellow avens, alpine gentians, blue polemonium, and purple primrose.
Watched by Wild Animals | Enos A. MillsHerbaceous vegetation consists largely of muhly grass, geum, and avens.
Life History and Ecology of the Five-lined Skink, Eumeces fasciatus | Henry S. FitchIt is soon followed by the wild parsley, Nuttall's or yellow violet, and the vivid plumes of the purple avens.
North Dakota | VariousThe mountain avens, Dryas octopetala, belongs to the same nat.
The Common avens grows abundantly all summer in woods and on shady hedge-banks, but it is not very attractive.
Flowers Shown to the Children | C. E. Smith
British Dictionary definitions for avens
/ (ˈævɪnz) /
any of several temperate or arctic rosaceous plants of the genus Geum, such as G. rivale (water avens), which has a purple calyx and orange-pink flowers: See also herb bennet
mountain avens either of two trailing evergreen white-flowered rosaceous shrubs of the genus Dryas that grow on mountains in N temperate regions and in the Arctic
Origin of avens
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