lavender

Meanings

Noun

• Any of a group of European plants, genus, Lavandula, of the mint family.
• A pale purple colour, like that of the lavender flower.
• A kind of film stock for creating positive prints from negatives as part of the process of duplicating the negatives.

Adjective

• Having a pale purple colour.
• Pertaining to LGBT people and rights
• Pertaining to lesbian feminism; opposing heterosexism.

Verb

• To decorate or perfume with lavender.

Related

Narrower meaning words

• common lavender

Origin

• From Middle English lavendre, from Anglo-Norman lavendre (French: lavande), from Medieval Latin lavendula, possibly from Latin lividus, but influenced by lavo due to use of lavender in washing clothes.