lavender
noun (lavender — uncountable for the plant and colour); adjective (lavender)
Everyday
- A small bush with sweet-smelling purple flowers, used in gardens, soaps and perfumes. tree →
- A pale purple colour. tree →
- The oil or scent made from these flowers. tree →
In the lessons
In science and gardening lessons: bees love lavender flowers. In everyday life: lavender soap, lavender bags in drawers to make clothes smell nice. In art: a lavender (pale purple) colour. Phrases: lavender oil, lavender field, lavender-scented.
Examples
- Bees buzzed around the lavender in the garden. tree →
- Grandma keeps a lavender bag in her drawer. tree →
- My new bedroom is painted lavender. tree →
- The soap smells of lavender. tree →
- We saw fields of purple lavender on holiday. tree →
- Lavender oil is said to help some people relax. tree →
- She wore a lavender dress to the party. tree →
- "The old man's mind is wandering," said the society editor, smoothing the wrinkles out of his lavender kids. tree →
Note
Mostly uncountable (some lavender); "lavenders" only for kinds of the plant. As a colour it is an adjective: a lavender ribbon. Lavender is a pale purple, lighter than violet.
On Mova
- Trees and pragmatics of «lavender» in the school dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- «lavender» in the school dictionary on Mova free.
This page in Markdown → https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/lavender/