Lexic.us

Definition of French lavender

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

2. Noun. Shrubby greyish lavender of southwestern Europe having usually reddish-purple flowers.

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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