lavender vs lilac

lavender

adj
  • Having a pale purple colour. 

  • Pertaining to lesbian feminism; opposing heterosexism. 

  • Pertaining to LGBT people and rights. 

verb
  • To decorate or perfume with lavender. 

noun
  • Any of a group of European plants, genus, Lavandula, of the mint family. 

  • A pale bluish 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. 

lilac

adj
  • Having a pale purple colour. 

noun
  • A flower of the lilac shrub. 

  • A pale purple color, the color of some lilac flowers. 

  • A large shrub of the genus Syringa, especially Syringa vulgaris, bearing white, pale-pink, or purple flowers. 

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