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Definition: Avens |
AvensNoun1. Any of various perennials of the genus Geum having usually pinnate basal leaves and variously colored flowers. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Avens \Av"ens\, noun. [Old French expression avence.]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: Avens |
| English words defined with "avens": bennet ♦ Dryas ♦ genus Dryas, genus Geum, Geum, Geum canadense, Geum virginianum ♦ white avens. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Close shot of Purple Avens wildflower, Lakeview District. Credit: Terry Spivey. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Avens" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Avens" is used about 24 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 66.67% | 16 | 87,710 |
| Noun (proper) | 33.33% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Total | 100.00% | 24 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "avens": mountain avens ♦ purple avens ♦ water avens ♦ white avens ♦ wood avens ♦ yellow avens. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
avens | 5 |
avens mountain | 4 |
avens furniture | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "avens"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Bulgarian | омайниче. (various references) | ||||||||||
Danish | nellikerod (avens root, bennet, wood avens), benedikturt (avens root, bennet, wood avens). (various references) | ||||||||||
Dutch | nagelkruid (herb Bennet, wood avens). (various references) | ||||||||||
Finnish | kyläkellukka (avens root, bennet, wood avens). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | sieversie des montagnes (Alpine avens), herbe de St.Benoît (avens root, wood avens), dryade (mountain avens), chênette (mountain avens), benoîte urbaine (avens root, wood avens), benoîte des montagnes (Alpine avens). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Nelkenwurz. (various references) | ||||||||||
Greek | γεόν (avens root, bennet, wood avens), γευστόν το αστικόν (avens root, bennet, wood avens). (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | garofanaia (avens root, bennet, wood avens), erba benedetta (avens root, bennet, wood avens), cariofillata (avens root, bennet, wood avens). (various references) | ||||||||||
Manx | parane churree (water avens), parane cheylley (wood avens), lus ny binn (mountain avens). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | avensay fjällsippa. (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "avens": avenses. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "avens": cravens, davens, havens, heavens, leavens, mavens, ravens. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "avens" (pronounced 'Av"ens'): Quickens, Slickens, Sowens. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: naves, vanes. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-n-s-v" | |
-1 letter: anes, aves, nave, sane, save, vane, vans, vase, vena. | |
-2 letters: ane, ave, ens, nae, sae, sea, sen, van, vas. | |
-3 letters: ae, an, as, en, es, na, ne. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-n-s-v" | |
+1 letter: davens, ganevs, havens, knaves, mavens, naevus, naives, navels, navies, ravens, savine, shaven, veenas, vegans. | |
+2 letters: advents, alevins, avenges, avenses, avenues, caverns, cravens, enslave, evanish, evasion, genevas, heavens, invades, leavens, levants, naivest, natives, navvies, novenas, pavanes, ravines, savines, servant, taverns, unsaved, vahines, vainest, valines, vanners, versant, vinasse. | |
+3 letters: advances, avengers, aversion, avidness, canvased, canvaser, canvases, centavos, concaves, deviants, dogvanes, enclaves, engraves, enravish, enslaved, enslaver, enslaves, envisage, evanesce, evangels, evasions, flavines, flavones, invaders, invasive, inweaves, javelins, juvenals, klaverns, leavings, naivetes, navettes, novellas, ovalness, overmans, parvenus, ravelins, raveners, ravenous, reshaven, sanative, scavenge, servants, sheaving, sleaving, spavined, tavernas, tsarevna, unravels, unshaved, unshaven, unweaves, vaccines, vainness, valances, valences, vandykes, vanished, vanisher, vanishes, vanities, vantages, varments, vastness, vaunters, veganism, vendaces, ventages, ventails, ventrals, verandas, verbenas, versants, verseman, vervains, vesicant, vesuvian, veterans, vinasses, vinegars, vintages, waviness. | |
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