Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Herb bennet.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The herb-bennet, or common avens, Geum urbanum.
- noun A grass-stalk; an old stalk of grass.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) The common yellow-flowered avens of Europe (
Geum urbanum ); herb bennet. The name is sometimes given to other plants, as the hemlock, valerian, etc.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun avens of Virginia having pale or greenish yellow flowers
- noun North American white-flowered avens
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Examples
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May 10th, 2010 12: 20 pm ET bennet is gone in utah,, one old goat gone,, now it time retire a another old goat way past his prime .... see ya arlen ... good ridence larry
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i just found out that because i'm in honours, i get to take out books for the entire semester! it's called the bennet 'bookstore' for me, today ....
Me a badass? Noooo.... Jes Battis 2007
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I was also reminded of claire bennet in heroes but this story brought her condition to life.
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Sanford should run away with palin and Bill bennet can be their love buddy .. but please please make them stay away from serving anything to do with y = the government. oh and take cheney and rove
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February 4th, 2008 at 8: 40 pm chodin says: forgetting sarah marshall: sort of like jean bennet ramsey, but with a fat/skinny guy combo and a lot less laughs.
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If we really wanted to make it good we could have had bennet shoot Parkman thinking it was Sylar.
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I don't think it's sandy hook, i think it's the waterfront path (maybe called marine pkwy) connecting coney island to floyd bennet-lane, where the bridge in the first pic connects the rockaways to the rest of bkly (at least physically)...although i might be wrong about all of that
The Indignity of Commuting by Bicycle: Shoals of Idiocy BikeSnobNYC 2009
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| Reply | Permalink the notion that one man can love another man runs counter to the military's training that it's ok for one man to hate another. pace reminds of the silly william bennet who fell from grace after people noticed that he didn't follow his own handbook of ethics!
Brownback Supports Pace's "Homosexuality Is Immoral" Comment 2009
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He is losing control, everyone else is running away to take cover. bennet is running towards his daughter begging Hiro, the true Hero to do something.
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But in herb-bennet and avens each nut has a single long awn, crooked near the middle with a very peculiar S-shaped joint, which effectually catches on to the wool or hair, but drops at the elbow after a short period of withering.
Science in Arcady Grant Allen 1873
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