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单词 wood avens
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wood avens
wood avens n. a yellow-flowered herbaceous perennial of woodland edges in Eurasia, Geum urbanum (family Rosaceae), formerly used to flavour ale; also called herb bennet.
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1712 G. Preston Catalogus Plantarum 13 Wood Avens.
1860 H. Watts tr. L. Gmelin Hand-bk. Chem. XIV. 370 Oil of Geum urbanum... In the root of wood avens, Geum urbanum, L., whence it is obtained by distillation with water.
1912 Science 4 Oct. 452/1 It is remarkable that two such well-marked species as the water avens (G. rivale) and the wood avens (G. urbanum) should produce so many fertile hybrid forms.
2011 Independent on Sunday (Nexis) 9 Oct. 50 We squeeze pulp from rosehips, and Irving shows me wood avens, a spice that tastes like cloves.
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