noun
definition
A plant of the genus Geum, especially Geum urbanum, or herb bennet.
definition
A plant of the genus Dryas.
Examples of avens in a Sentence
At the foot of the pitch a ramp slopes up to a choke passing below two high avens.
To the left, the passage, avens Passage, leads to two large avens.
We then set off downstream through the ducks to the point where the twin avens come in.
The stream was cold and the passage low and gravel floored, with occasional avens containing loosely cemented fill and old flowstone.
A climb over leads to two blind avens with water dripping in.
Unusually, grazing levels appear to be low enough to allow the development of mountain avens heath on slopes open to grazing animals.
Ground flora includes dog's mercury, bluebell, primrose and wood avens.
Damper areas support species such as meadowsweet, ragged robin, water avens, lady's mantle and meadow fescue.
In damp patches marsh valerian, devil's-bit scabious, marsh ragwort, water avens, meadowsweet and can be found.
Thus, besides such forms as Evan, Aune, Anne, Ive, Auney, Inney, &c., in the British Islands, Aff, Aven, Avon, Aune appear in Brittany and elsewhere in France, Avenza and Avens in Italy, Avia in Portugal, and Avono in Spain; while the terminal syllable of a large proportion of the Latinized names of French rivers, such as the Sequana, the Matrona and the Garumna, seems originally to have been the same word.
Mountain Avens (Dryas) - Mountain plants of the Rose family, containing two or three dwarf alpine plants of spreading growth and neat evergreen foliage.
On walks ashore you find amazingly lush vegetation, including mountain avens, saxifrages, poppies, cotton grass and white bell heather.
Heading right leads across two blind pitches before terminating below several inlet avens.