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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lavender/#m1)

2) A pale purple colour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lavender/#m2)

3) The oil or scent made from these flowers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lavender/#m3)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lavender/#x1)
- Grandma keeps a lavender bag in her drawer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lavender/#x2)
- My new bedroom is painted lavender. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lavender/#x3)
- The soap smells of lavender. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lavender/#x4)
- We saw fields of purple lavender on holiday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lavender/#x5)
- Lavender oil is said to help some people relax. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lavender/#x6)
- She wore a lavender dress to the party. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lavender/#x7)
- "The old man's mind is wandering," said the society editor, smoothing the wrinkles out of his lavender kids. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lavender/#x8)

### 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».](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/38-willows-ch4-part2-toad-news-and-hedgehogs/27/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «lavender» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lavender/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.