| 单词 | water avens |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswater avens water avens n. (also occasionally water aven) a herbaceous plant with nodding reddish flowers, Geum rivale (family Rosaceae), which grows in bogs and wet grassland in much of the northern hemisphere. ΚΠ 1690 J. Ray Synopsis Methodica Stirpium Brit. 89 Purple Mountain Avens, or Water Avens. 1832 E. Bulwer-Lytton Eugene Aram I. i. vi. 95 The common enchanter's night-shade, the silver weed, and the water-aven. 1972 R. Adams Watership Down xxxiii. 257 In places it was almost bog. Marsh sedge grew there,..and the drooping water-avens. 2008 Western Morning News (Plymouth) (Nexis) 6 June 17 Water avens..is widespread along some ditches and wet places. It has nodding, orange-pink flowers. < as lemmas |
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