Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various perennial herbs of the genus Geum in the rose family, having often pinnate basal leaves and variously colored flowers with many pistils.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The popular English name of species of plants of the genus Geum.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A plant of the genus Geum, of the rose family, esp.
Geum urbanum , or herb bennet. They may bear red, yellow, or white flowers.
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- noun botany A plant of the
genus Geum, especially Geum urbanum, orherb bennet .
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- noun any of various perennials of the genus Geum having usually pinnate basal leaves and variously colored flowers
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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White mountain-avens may cover entire ridges in the Alaska Range, associated with moss campion, black oxytrope, arctic sandwort, lichens, grasses, and sedges.
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Today, introduced annual grasses, including various species of avens, brome, fescue, and barley, occupy most of the remaining grassland areas.
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In the Arctic, extremely steep environmental gradients are frequent on a microtopographical scale and ecotypic differentiation has been demonstrated over such short distances for alpine timothy (Phleum alpinum [16]), Carex aquatilis [17], mountain avens [18], and purple saxifrage [19], all widely distributed plant species in the Arctic.
Genetic responses of arctic species to changes in climate and ultraviolet-B radiation levels 2009
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Polar semi-desert dominated by mountain avens ( '' Dryas octopetala ''), Ny Ålesund, Svalbard.
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Such an effect was demonstrated for mountain avens ( '' Dryas octopetala '') on Svalbard during a warm period in early winter [78] (see previous subsection on projected temperature responses).
Phenotypic responses of arctic species to changes in climate and ultraviolet-B radiation 2009
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Alpine vegetation is also characterized by heather (Ericaceae) with sedges (Carex spp.) and mountain avens (Dryas hookeriana) on warmer sites.
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The dwarf scrub communities are dominated by crowberry (Empetrum nigrum) and include other ericads (Vaccinium spp.), arctic willow (Salix arctica), and white mountain-avens (Dryas octopetala).
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In the colder alpine regions, mountain avens (Dryas hookeriana), dwarf shrubs, forbs, grasses, and lichens constitute the main vegetative cover.
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The alpine vegetation is typically tundra, and includes discontinuous patches of low-growing heather (Ericaceae), sedge (Carex spp.), and mountain avens (Dryas hookeriana).
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Surface material deposits from glaciers and icefields form moraines which are colonized by lichens and mosses, horsetail Equisetum sp., willows Salix spp., fire weed Epilobium sp., and mountain avens Dryas drummondii.
chained_bear commented on the word avens
"There was a trail of tiny black ants.... I flicked them off with a few stern swipes of my apron, and made a mental note to see about finding some avens root for repellent."
—Diana Gabaldon, A Breath of Snow and Ashes (New York: Bantam Dell, 2005), 263
January 31, 2010