avens

American  

[av-inz] / ˈæv ɪnz /

noun

1. any of various plants of the genus Geum, of the rose family, having yellow, white, or red flowers.

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avens British  

/ ˈævɪnz /

noun

1. 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

2. 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

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Other Word Forms

Inflected Forms

noun

• avens
  plural

Etymology

Origin of avens

1200–50; Middle English avence < Old French < Medieval Latin avencia kind of clover