(n.) An aromatic plant of the genus Lavandula (L. vera), common in the south of Europe. It yields and oil used in medicine and perfumery. The Spike lavender (L. Spica) yields a coarser oil (oil of spike), used in the arts.
(n.) The pale, purplish color of lavender flowers, paler and more delicate than lilac.
Example Sentences:
(1) The effect of volatile oils of lavender, monarda, and basil on the course of experimental atherosclerosis was studied in rabbit experiments.
(2) People often come to Provence just to see the lavender."
(3) The sedative properties of the essential oil of Lavender (Lavandula angustifolia Miller) and of its main constituents--linalool and linalyl acetate--were investigated in mice followed up in a series of experimental procedures.
(4) Perhaps they'll have to CGI old footage of Lavender into the scenes with Jones and Nighy.
(5) It looked like a banana split to me,” Lavender told the Birmingham Mail .
(6) I’m just working through my hobbies.” In the meantime, he’s just finished filming a one-off drama about the making of Dad’s Army , in which he plays Ian (Private Pike) Lavender.
(7) The culprit is a mini cicada called a cicadelle which French lavender producers believe has proliferated because of hotter, drier summers, blamed on global warming.
(8) I sat quietly wearing it and nobody really noticed.” Lavender, one of the few surviving cast members from the original series, has a small role as Brigadier Pritchard in the film , which stars Toby Jones as Captain Mainwaring and Bill Nighy as Sergeant Wilson.
(9) Examinations of the basic material for removable dentures, coated with rose, lavender, sage wax evidence that such coating essentially reduces residual methylmetacrylate migration and its side effect on the denture bed tissues, and improves the hygienic characteristics of dentures.
(10) On set to shoot a cameo in the movie, Lavender, 68, was struck by lemon additions on the scarf worn by Blake Harrison, who plays Pike.
(11) Lavender was 22 in 1968, when he got the part of Pike, joining a cast of already venerable and respected thesps – including Arthur Lowe, John Le Mesurier, Clive Dunn and John Laurie – in his first substantial professional role.
(12) Some of them may now house galleries and ice-cream parlours that sell strawberry and lavender sorbet, but family businesses such as Schicketanz butchers and Seidel’s bakery will keep the area grounded.
(13) She was a querulous and bad-tempered country woman who was required to admire the hub of empire from the dispiriting vantage of a house in Lavender Gardens, at the top of Battersea Rise.
(14) There are around 30 types of lavender, producing flowers of varying colours including purple, pink and white.
(15) Scientists are now looking for lavender varieties resistant to the micro-bacterium.
(16) A succession of winners made amusing and self-deprecating speeches – Lord Falconer (Oldie slimmer of the year) , Ian Lavender (Stupid Oldie Boy of the year) – though the warmest applause was for Bridget Riley (Stripe Artist of the year) who won everyone’s heart by her touching sincerity.
(17) France has 1,700 lavender producers working 16,000 hectares of lavandin, along with another 4,000 hectares of strictly controlled "pure" lavender.
(18) Returning to the world of Harry Potter, the character of Lavender Brown was recast from a black actor in the first films to a white actor just in time for her to become a romantic prospect for Ron Weasley.
(19) This mummy's boy, along with a bunch of doddery gents, may have constituted Blighty's laughable last line of defence against Nazi invasion, but there is nothing wimpish about Lavender's handshake.
(20) After playing Herbert Pocket, in Lean's Great Expectations (1946), and Fagin, in Oliver Twist (1948), Guinness went on to a series of glorious Ealing comedies - perhaps most memorably as the bankteller-turned-robber Henry Holland in Charles Crichton's The Lavender Hill Mob (1951), for which he was nominated for an Oscar, and as the criminal Professor Marcus, in Alexander Mackendrick's The Ladykillers (1955).
Lilac
Definition:
(n.) A shrub of the genus Syringa. There are six species, natives of Europe and Asia. Syringa vulgaris, the common lilac, and S. Persica, the Persian lilac, are frequently cultivated for the fragrance and beauty of their purplish or white flowers. In the British colonies various other shrubs have this name.
(n.) A light purplish color like that of the flower of the purplish lilac.
Example Sentences:
(1) People brought flowers, and large piles of roses, lilac, tulips and carnations lay by the blackened doors.
(2) Under the vast murals of Oslo's City Hall, the traditional venue for the Nobel peace prize lectures, Aung Sun Suu Kyi appeared impossibly small, entering the hall wearing a purple jacket and flowing lilac scarf to the sound of a trumpet fanfare.
(3) The Lilac facility has no bed and no computer,” the letter says.
(4) At Mjoifjordur the stripes of seaweed follow the contours of the shoreline in bright colours – lilac, red and gold.
(5) Shortly after Hett’s first message, a friend got in contact to say he wanted to buy “ an adorable lilac glove monster ” for £2.
(6) B cells, which occupy the interior of the islet, display a lilac color.
(7) In fact, after just one day the pink coat would probably be a smudgy lilac coat, and after one more day it would be a sludgy grey coat.
(8) Birch twig and marguerite most frequently induced symptoms, followed by strongly smelling flowers such as hyacinth, lilac, and lily of the valley.
(9) In an earlier preliminary round in April, Justice Stephen Kaye ordered the commonwealth to delay the planned demolition of the alluringly named Aqua and Lilac compounds on Christmas Island.
(10) Then there’s a little payoff at the end, where, as you get really old, you become androgynous again.” He can’t wait for his 70s: if he’s got his hair, he’s going for the lilac rinse.
(11) The liberated p-nitroaniline was converted in situ into a lilac-coloured product using the Bratton-Marshall reaction.
(12) They also revealed the pride in finding out she had passed 11 GCSEs, tempered with the bittersweet knowledge she was not there to open her own results letter, nor wear the lilac dress she bought for the school prom.
(13) This article describes the evolution of prenatal care in Latin America during the past 2 decades based on a literature review which utilized the Medline, Popline, and Lilacs (Pan American Health Organization) data bases.
(14) Aceto-white epithelium develops reddish color in case of medium-mature metaplasia, brown-violet in case of mature metaplasia, lilac in case of superficial koilocytosis on metaplasia.
(15) As the sky turned lilac, I saw hundreds flutter past – red and blue macaws in pairs, companies of green parrots, flotillas of ibis gliding in elegant V-formation, as well as toucans, nightjars, lapwings and pauraques.
(16) While we waited, a group of fighters made us tea in plastic cups with a lilac-coloured kettle, and we talked about life in the warzone.
(17) Synthetic transcripts of a satellite RNA associated with a lilac isolate of arabis mosaic nepovirus (ArMV) were made from cDNA clones.
(18) His next two books, Once in Europa (1987) and Lilac and Flag (1990), were each a collection of discrete stories accumulating into a novel, and were brought together with Pig Earth in a trilogy published as Into Their Labours (1992).
(19) The skit features the twosome as Bryce Shivers (Ronseal tan, lilac cravat) and Lisa Eversman (think Linda Barker at her most deranged), a pair of designers who think anything from teapots and tote bags to toast can be spruced up by daubing a silhouette of a bird on it.
(20) Chicken soup on a drip, someone's mum wiping your mouth with a licked lilac hankie, weekly sessions explaining why Jews don't camp?