french lavender

1. 1.

   Mediterranean plant with pale purple flowers that yields spike lavender oil

   Synonymsspike lavenderLavandula latifolia

   Broaderlavender
2. 2.

   shrubby greyish lavender of southwestern Europe having usually reddish-purple flowers

   SynonymsLavandula stoechas

   Broaderlavender

Questions about french lavender

What does french lavender mean?

french lavender means "Mediterranean plant with pale purple flowers that yields spike lavender oil". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for french lavender?

Close synonyms include spike lavender, Lavandula latifolia, Lavandula stoechas. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is french lavender a common word?

french lavender is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.