Definition of French lavender

1. Noun. Mediterranean plant with pale purple flowers that yields spike lavender oil.

Exact synonyms: Lavandula Latifolia, Spike Lavender
Generic synonyms: Lavender
Terms within: Spike Lavender Oil, Spike Oil

2. Noun. Shrubby greyish lavender of southwestern Europe having usually reddish-purple flowers.
Exact synonyms: Lavandula Stoechas
Generic synonyms: Lavender

Lexicographical Neighbors of French Lavender

French honeysuckle
French horn
French horns
French inhale
French inhaled
French inhales
French inhaling
French kiss
French kissed
French kisser
French kissers
French kisses
French kissing
French knickers
French knot
French lavender (current term)
French leave
French lesson
French loaf
French maid
French maids
French marigold
French omelet
French onion soup
French onion soups
French pancake
French paradox
French parfait
French parfaits
French partridge

Literary usage of French lavender

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Allen's Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Modes of by Alfred Henry Allen (1911)
"... together with esters of the former, in French lavender oil. The sp. gr. of both English and French lavender oils varies between 0.885 and ..."

2. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention (1903)
"French lavender Oil—Original Constants and Constituents.—Messrs. Schimmel & Co. have again subjected French lavender oil to chemical examination. ..."

3. Plant Names, Scientific and Popular, Including in the Case of Each Plant the by Albert Brown Lyons (1900)
"Spike Lavender, French lavender, Great or Male Lavender, Aspic; Fr. Lavande commune, ... Arabian Lavender, French lavender*, Gentle or Topped Lavender, ..."

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