lavender
Any of a group of European plants, genus, Lavandula, of the mint family.
Other meanings
A pale bluish purple colour, like that of the lavender flower.
A kind of film stock used for creating positive prints from negatives as part of the process of duplicating the negatives.
Related words
- lavenderish
- lavender foal syndrome
- lavendery
- lavender water
- desert lavender
- Lavender Bay
- English lavender
- lavender cotton
- lay up in lavender
- lay in lavender
- sea lavender
- fernleaf lavender
Word history
From Latin "lividus" (bluish).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “lavender” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.