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av·ens  (vnz)

n. pl. avens

1. Any of various perennial herbs of the genus Geum in the rose family, having often pinnate basal leaves and variously colored flowers with many pistils.

2. The mountain avens.

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[Middle English avence, from Old French, from Medieval Latin avencia.]

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avens [ˈævɪnz]

n pl -ens (functioning as singular)

1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) 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

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants)

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

[from Old French avence, from Medieval Latin avencia variety of clover]

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avens - any of various perennials of the genus Geum having usually pinnate basal leaves and variously colored flowers genus Geum, Geum - avens Geum alleppicum strictum, Geum strictum, yellow avens - erect subshrub with deep yellow flowers; Europe and Asia and North America Geum canadense, white avens, bennet - 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, water avens, purple 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 subshrub, suffrutex - low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base