purple avens

1. 1.

   North American perennial with hairy basal pinnate leaves and purple flowers and plume-tipped fruits

   Synonymsprairie smokeGeum triflorum

   Broaderavens
2. 2.

   erect perennial of north temperate zone having pinnate leaves and a few nodding flowers with a brown-purple calyx and orange and pink petals

   Synonymswater avensIndian chocolatechocolate rootGeum rivale

   Broaderavens

Questions about purple avens

What does purple avens mean?

purple avens means "North American perennial with hairy basal pinnate leaves and purple flowers and plume-tipped fruits". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for purple avens?

Close synonyms include prairie smoke, Geum triflorum, water avens, Indian chocolate, chocolate root. 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 purple avens a common word?

purple avens is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.