lavender.

1. An aromatic plant with narrow leaves and spikes of small purple flowers.

2. A pale purple often tinged with blue.

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Words that belong together

• dried lavender
• lavender scent

On the page

Dried lavender scented the linen cupboard.

Usage notes

Primary category: sensory / description. Forms: Plant material and color normally uncountable; countable individual plants are lavender plants. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: description. Commonness: moderately common.