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Adjective: lavender  la-vun-du(r)
  1. Of a pale purple colour
    "She wore a lavender-coloured dress to the spring wedding";
    - lilac, lilac-colored [US], lilac-coloured [Brit, Cdn]
Noun: lavender  la-vun-du(r)
  1. Any of various Old World aromatic shrubs or subshrubs with usually mauve or blue flowers; widely cultivated
    "The scent of lavender filled the air in the Provençal countryside"
     
  2. A pale purple colour
    "She painted her bedroom walls a soothing lavender"

Derived forms: lavenders

See also: chromatic

Type of: bush, purple, purpleness, shrub

Part of: genus Lavandula, Lavandula

Encyclopedia: Lavender, Mark