avens

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈævɪnz/

avens (plural avens)

1. A plant of the genus Geum, especially Geum urbanum, or herb bennet.
2. A plant of the genus Dryas.

• cloveroot

• spring avens (Geum vernum)

• avens on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Evans, Naves, Sevan, Venas, naves, vanes

avens

1. second-person singular present indicative of avenir

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avens

1. plural of aven

From Proto-Italic *awents, present participle of aveō.

avēns (genitive aventis, adverb aventer); third-declension one-termination participle

1. craving

Third-declension participle.

¹When used purely as an adjective.

• “avens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press