| 单词 | lavender |
| 释义 | lavender (once / 1536 pages) nadj You know that sweet-smelling plant with tiny purple-blue flowers your grandmother has growing in her garden? Well that’s lavender, a sweet-smelling evergreen with 93 different species. If you’re brave and look in your grandmother’s drawer you’ll probably find dried sachets of lavender flowers to keep her clothes smelling nice, as lavender is one of the most common natural scents of all, including an oil made from its essence. The plant has also given its name to the color lavender. So, a plant, a scent and a color — not bad for one little shrub! WORD FAMILYlavender: lavenders USAGE EXAMPLESThe quality of the beer also varied widely: For every delicate lavender saison, there was a wheat beer that just didn’t taste right. Washington Post(Dec 11, 2016) Despite the eighty-six-degree heat, he wore a gray suit, a lavender dress shirt, a purple tie, and a City Council lapel pin. The New Yorker(Dec 04, 2016) The wide lapels of her blue, A-line dress smelled of lavender. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Purple Hibiscus(2003) 1n any of various Old World aromatic shrubs or subshrubs with usually mauve or blue flowers; widely cultivated Hypo|Hyper English lavender, Lavandula angustifolia, Lavandula officinalis aromatic Mediterranean shrub widely cultivated for its lilac flowers which are dried and used in sachets French lavender, Lavandula stoechasshrubby greyish lavender of southwestern Europe having usually reddish-purple flowers French lavender, Lavandula latifolia, spike lavenderMediterranean plant with pale purple flowers that yields spike lavender oil bush, shrub a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems 2n a pale purple color Hyper purple, purpleness a purple color or pigment 3adj of a pale purple color Syn lilac, lilac-colored chromatic being or having or characterized by hue |
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