English > avens: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | Any of various perennials of the genus Geum having usually pinnate basal leaves and variously colored flowers. |
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| Member of | Geum, genus Geum | avens |
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| Narrower | bennet, white avens, Geum canadense | North American white-flowered avens |
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| bennet, white avens, Geum virginianum | avens of Virginia having pale or greenish yellow flowers |
| herb bennet, cloveroot, clover-root, wood avens, Geum urbanum | hairy Eurasian plant with small yellow flowers and an astringent root formerly used medicinally |
| prairie smoke, purple avens, Geum triflorum | North American perennial with hairy basal pinnate leaves and purple flowers and plume-tipped fruits |
| water avens, Indian chocolate, purple avens, chocolate root, Geum rivale | Erect perennial of north temperate zone having pinnate leaves and a few nodding flowers with a brown-purple calyx and orange and pink petals |
| yellow avens, Geum alleppicum strictum, Geum strictum | Erect subshrub with deep yellow flowers |
| yellow avens, Geum macrophyllum | hairy yellow-flowered plant of eastern Asia and North America |
| Broader | subshrub, suffrutex | low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base |
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