lavender vs petunia

lavender

noun
  • A pale bluish purple colour, like that of the lavender flower. 

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

  • A kind of film stock for creating positive prints from negatives as part of the process of duplicating the negatives. 

adj
  • Pertaining to lesbian feminism; opposing heterosexism. 

  • Pertaining to LGBT people and rights. 

  • Having a pale purple colour. 

verb
  • To decorate or perfume with lavender. 

petunia

noun
  • A dark purple colour, like that of some petunia flowers. 

  • Any of the flowering plants of genus Petunia, of which most garden varieties are hybrids. 

  • a homosexual 

adj
  • Of a dark purple colour, like that of some petunia flowers. 

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