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WATER AVENS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does water avens mean?
• WATER AVENS (noun)
The noun WATER AVENS has 1 sense:
1. erect perennial of north temperate zone having pinnate leaves and a few nodding flowers with a brown-purple calyx and orange and pink petals
Familiarity information: WATER AVENS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Erect perennial of north temperate zone having pinnate leaves and a few nodding flowers with a brown-purple calyx and orange and pink petals
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
chocolate root; Geum rivale; Indian chocolate; purple avens; water avens
Hypernyms ("water avens" is a kind of...):
avens (any of various perennials of the genus Geum having usually pinnate basal leaves and variously colored flowers)
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