av·ens 
(ăvənz)
(ăvənz)n. pl. avens
Any of various perennial herbs of the genus Geum in the rose family, having often pinnate basal leaves and variously colored flowers with many pistils. Also called geum.
[Middle English avence, from Old French, from Medieval Latin avencia.]
- lightheartedness
- light heavyweight
- "Light Horse Harry."
- lighthouse
- lighting
- light into
- lightly
- light meter
- light mill
- light-minded
- light-mindedly
- light-mindedness
- lightness
- lightness
- lightning
- lightning arrester
- lightning bug
- lightning chess
- lightning rod
- light opera
- light out
- light pen
- light plane
- lightplane
- light pollution