Avens Definition

ăvənz
noun
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.
American Heritage
Any of a genus (Geum) of herbaceous plants of the rose family, with compound leaves and variously colored, usually yellow, flowers.
Webster's New World

(botany) A plant of the genus Geum, especially Geum urbanum, or herb bennet.

Wiktionary

(botany) A plant of the genus Dryas.

Wiktionary

Origin of Avens

  • Middle English avence, from Anglo-Norman avance, avence, from Medieval Latin avencia (“a kind of clover”)

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English avence from Old French from Medieval Latin avencia

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Avens Sentence Examples

  • At the foot of the pitch a ramp slopes up to a choke passing below two high avens.

  • To the left, the passage, avens Passage, leads to two large avens.

  • We then set off downstream through the ducks to the point where the twin avens come in.

  • The stream was cold and the passage low and gravel floored, with occasional avens containing loosely cemented fill and old flowstone.

  • A climb over leads to two blind avens with water dripping in.

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