spike lavender

American  

noun

1. a lavender, Lavandula latifolia, having spikes of pale-purple flowers, and yielding an oil used in painting.

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spike lavender British  

noun

1. a Mediterranean lavender plant, Lavandula latifolia, having pale purple flowers and yielding an oil used in paints

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Etymology

Origin of spike lavender

First recorded in 1890–95

Example Sentences

Shepherds—mere small boys—keep the sheep in these stony meadows, where the flocks graze, to the greater glory of our local mutton, on the camphor saturated badafo, that is to say, spike lavender.

From Project Gutenberg