lavender : Idioms & Phrases

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english lavender

  • noun aromatic Mediterranean shrub widely cultivated for its lilac flowers which are dried and used in sachets
    Lavandula officinalis; Lavandula angustifolia.
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french lavender

  • noun Mediterranean plant with pale purple flowers that yields spike lavender oil
    French lavender; Lavandula latifolia.
  • noun shrubby greyish lavender of southwestern Europe having usually reddish-purple flowers
    Lavandula stoechas.
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Lavender cotton

  • noun branching aromatic Mediterranean shrub with woolly stems and leaves and yellow flowers
    Santolina chamaecyparissus.
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  • (Bot.), a low, twiggy, aromatic shrub (Santolina Chamæcyparissus) of the Mediterranean region, formerly used as a vermifuge, etc., and still used to keep moths from wardrobes. Also called ground cypress.
Webster 1913

Lavender water

  • a perfume composed of alcohol, essential oil of lavender, essential oil of bergamot, and essence of ambergris.
Webster 1913

lavender-pink

  • adjective satellite of pink tinged with lavender
    violet-pink; lilac-pink.
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lavender-tinged

  • adjective satellite of something tinged with lavender
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pink-lavender

  • adjective satellite of lavender tinged with pink
    pink-lavender.
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pinkish-lavender

  • adjective satellite of lavender tinged with pink
    pink-lavender.
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red-lavender

  • adjective satellite of something having a lavender color tinged with red
    red-lavender.
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reddish-lavender

  • adjective satellite of something having a lavender color tinged with red
    red-lavender.
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rose-lavender

  • adjective satellite of lavender tinged with rose
    rose-lilac.
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Sea lavender

  • noun any of various plants of the genus Limonium of temperate salt marshes having spikes of white or mauve flowers
    statice; marsh rosemary.
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  • . (Bot.) See Marsh rosemary.
Webster 1913

sea-lavender family

  • noun perennial herbs and shrubs and lianas; cosmopolitan especially in saltwater areas
    family Plumbaginaceae; leadwort family; Plumbaginaceae.
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spike lavender

  • noun Mediterranean plant with pale purple flowers that yields spike lavender oil
    French lavender; Lavandula latifolia.
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spike lavender oil

  • noun pale yellow essential oil obtained from spike lavender used in scenting soaps and cosmetics
    spike oil.
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To lay in lavender

  • . (a) To lay away, as clothing, with sprigs of lavender . (b) To pawn. Obs.
Webster 1913