WOOD AVENS

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Meaning:

Hairy Eurasian plant with small yellow flowers and an astringent root formerly used medicinally

Synonyms:

clover-root; cloveroot; Geum urbanum; herb bennet; wood avens

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Nouns denoting plants

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

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

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