avens

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noun any of various perennials of the genus Geum having usually pinnate basal leaves and variously colored flowers

From Middle English avence, from Anglo-Norman avance, Old French avence, from Medieval Latin avencia (“a kind of clover”).

And did not both men pluck him handfuls of cowslips, of tawny-pink avens, and of mottled, snake-headed fritillaries, and stow them away in the fishing-baskets above the load of silver-and-red spotted trout? — The History of Sir Richard Calmady: A Romance, Lucas Malet

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