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WOOD AVENS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does wood avens mean?
• WOOD AVENS (noun)
The noun WOOD AVENS has 1 sense:
1. hairy Eurasian plant with small yellow flowers and an astringent root formerly used medicinally
Familiarity information: WOOD AVENS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Hairy Eurasian plant with small yellow flowers and an astringent root formerly used medicinally
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
clover-root; cloveroot; Geum urbanum; herb bennet; wood avens
Hypernyms ("wood 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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