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YELLOW AVENS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does yellow avens mean?
• YELLOW AVENS (noun)
The noun YELLOW AVENS has 2 senses:
1. hairy yellow-flowered plant of eastern Asia and North America
2. erect subshrub with deep yellow flowers; Europe and Asia and North America
Familiarity information: YELLOW AVENS used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Hairy yellow-flowered plant of eastern Asia and North America
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Geum macrophyllum; yellow avens
Hypernyms ("yellow avens" is a kind of...):
avens (any of various perennials of the genus Geum having usually pinnate basal leaves and variously colored flowers)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Erect subshrub with deep yellow flowers; Europe and Asia and North America
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Geum alleppicum strictum; Geum strictum; yellow avens
Hypernyms ("yellow 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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