YELLOW AVENS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does yellow avens mean? 

• YELLOW AVENS (noun)
  The noun YELLOW AVENS has 2 senses:

1. hairy yellow-flowered plant of eastern Asia and North America

2. erect subshrub with deep yellow flowers; Europe and Asia and North America

  Familiarity information: YELLOW AVENS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• YELLOW AVENS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Hairy yellow-flowered plant of eastern Asia and North America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Geum macrophyllum; yellow avens

Hypernyms ("yellow avens" is a kind of...):

avens (any of various perennials of the genus Geum having usually pinnate basal leaves and variously colored flowers)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Erect subshrub with deep yellow flowers; Europe and Asia and North America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Geum alleppicum strictum; Geum strictum; yellow avens

Hypernyms ("yellow avens" is a kind of...):

avens (any of various perennials of the genus Geum having usually pinnate basal leaves and variously colored flowers)