Lexic.us

Definition of Purple avens

1. Noun. North American perennial with hairy basal pinnate leaves and purple flowers and plume-tipped fruits.

2. Noun. Erect perennial of north temperate zone having pinnate leaves and a few nodding flowers with a brown-purple calyx and orange and pink petals.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Purple Avens

purparties purparty purpie purpies purple purple-fish purple-flowering raspberry purple-fringed orchid purple-fringed orchis purple-hooded orchis

purple-staining Cortinarius purple-stemmed aster purple amaranth purple anise purple apricot purple avens (current term) purple bacteria purple beech purple boneset purple chinese houses

purple clematis purple clover purple coral purple corals purple cress purple drank purple dye murex purple dye murices purple emperor purple emperors

Literary usage of Purple avens

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

1. The American Botanist edited by Willard Nelson Clute (1915)
"The root leaves of the purple avens are thick and deeply parted, with rounded lobes. ... Even down to our own prosaic day the interest in the purple avens ..."

2. The American Botanist edited by Willard Nelson Clute (1917)
"The root leaves of the purple avens are thick ... Even down to ou-r own prosaic day the interest in the purple avens centers not a little in the ..."

3. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1897)
"July-Aug. White Mountains of New Hampshire; Mt. Kineo, 3. Genm ciliatum Pursh. Long-plumed purple avens. (Fig. 1942. ..."

4. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1897)
"Long-plumed purple avens. (Fig. 1942.) Geum ciliatum Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 352. 1814. Geum triflorum Pursh, loc. cit. 736. 1814. Softly pubescent with short ..."

5. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1902)
"... rivale (purple avens) the petals are purplish orange and the calyx brown purple. The honey can be reached only by long-tongued bees and flies, ..."

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