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bennet

bennet noun: wood avens or herb bennet, a common yellow-flowered plant of Europe (Geum urbanum).

Noun

bennet

  1. Wood avens or herb bennet, a common yellow-flowered plant of Europe (Geum urbanum).
  2. poison hemlock (Conium maculatum) or water hemlock (Cicuta spp.) plants.
  3. Valerian, especially of species Valeriana officinalis.

Proper noun capitalized: Bennet

Bennet

  1. A surname transferred from the given name, a less common spelling of Bennett.
  2. A male given name from Latin, in modern use often transferred back from the surname.
    • - - - the triplex, sir, is a good tripping measure; or the bells of Saint Bennet, sir, may put you in mind; one, two, three.c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
  3. A city in Lancaster County, Nebraska, United States.

bennet meaning in Malayalam and Nepali

bennet in Malayalam

ബെനെറ്റ്

bennet in Nepali

बेनेट

Origin of bennet

From Middle English *benet (found in Middle English herbe-benet (“hemlock”, literally “blessed plant”)), from Old French benëit, benoit and Latin (herba) benedicta. Doublet of benedict.

From Benedict. See French Benoît, Norman Beneît. Doublet of Benoit and Benito.

Questions about bennet

What does bennet mean?
Bennet means wood avens or herb bennet, a common yellow-flowered plant of Europe (Geum urbanum).
What is bennet in Malayalam?
Bennet in Malayalam is ബെനെറ്റ്. See Bennet meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is bennet?
Bennet can be a noun or a proper noun.

Words near bennet in the dictionary

  1. Bennefields
  2. Bennelong
  3. benner
  4. benners
  5. Bennes
  6. bennet
  7. Bennett
  8. Bennett County
  9. Bennett fracture
  10. Bennett pinch
  11. Bennett pinches

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: bennet (page history and authors); Bennet (page history and authors); bennet (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bennet (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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