lavender

«lavender» in Mova's school dictionary: A small bush with sweet-smelling purple flowers, used in… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (lavender — uncountable for the plant and colour); adjective (lavender)

meaning for a pupil

1) A small bush with sweet-smelling purple flowers, used in gardens, soaps and perfumes. tree →

2) A pale purple colour. tree →

3) The oil or scent made from these flowers. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science and gardening lessons: bees love lavender flowers. In everyday life: lavender soap, lavender bags in drawers to make clothes smell nice. In art: a lavender (pale purple) colour. Phrases: lavender oil, lavender field, lavender-scented.

examples

• Bees buzzed around the lavender in the garden. tree →
• Grandma keeps a lavender bag in her drawer. tree →
• My new bedroom is painted lavender. tree →
• The soap smells of lavender. tree →
• We saw fields of purple lavender on holiday. tree →
• Lavender oil is said to help some people relax. tree →
• She wore a lavender dress to the party. tree →
• "The old man's mind is wandering," said the society editor, smoothing the wrinkles out of his lavender kids. tree →

note

Mostly uncountable (some lavender); "lavenders" only for kinds of the plant. As a colour it is an adjective: a lavender ribbon. Lavender is a pale purple, lighter than violet.

In the corpora

• The beds are clean and smell «beautifully of lavender».

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «lavender» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.