What (who) is lavender - definition

GENUS OF PLANTS

Lavendar; Lavinder; Lavenders; Lavandula x intermedia; Lavandin; Lavander; Lavender; Stoechas; Styphonia; Chaetostachys; Isinia; Dutch lavender; Culinary Lavender; Culinary lavender

Lavender

·noun The pale, purplish color of lavender flowers, paler and more delicate than lilac.

II. Lavender ·noun An aromatic plant of the genus Lavandula (L. vera), common in the south of Europe. It yields and oil used in medicine and perfumery. The Spike lavender (L. Spica) yields a coarser oil (oil of spike), used in the arts.

lavender

¦ noun

1. a small aromatic evergreen shrub of the mint family, with narrow leaves and bluish-purple flowers. [Genus Lavandula.]

(also lavender oil) a scented oil distilled from lavender flowers.

used in names of similar plants, e.g. sea lavender.

2. a pale blue colour with a trace of mauve.

Origin

ME: from Anglo-Norman Fr. lavendre, based on med. L. lavandula.

lavender

(lavenders)

Lavender is a garden plant with sweet-smelling, bluish-purple flowers.

N-UNCOUNT: also N in pl

Lavender is used to describe things that are pale bluish-purple in colour.

COLOUR

Wikipedia

Lavandula

Lavandula (common name lavender) is a genus of 47 known species of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae. It is native to the Old World and is found in Cape Verde and the Canary Islands, and from Europe across to northern and eastern Africa, the Mediterranean, southwest Asia to India.

Many members of the genus are cultivated extensively in temperate climates as ornamental plants for garden and landscape use, for use as culinary herbs, and also commercially for the extraction of essential oils. The most widely cultivated species, Lavandula angustifolia, is often referred to as lavender, and there is a color named for the shade of the flowers of this species. Lavender has been used over centuries in traditional medicine and cosmetics.

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