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Savin vs Ravin - What's the difference?

savin | ravin |

As nouns the difference between savin and ravin

is that savin is the evergreen shrub species: Juniperus sabina, endemic to Europe, which yields a medicinal oil while ravin is food obtained by violence; plunder; prey; raven.

As an adjective ravin is

ravenous.

savin

English

(wikipedia savin) (Juniperus sabina) (Juniperus virginiana)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The evergreen shrub , endemic to Europe, which yields a medicinal oil.
  • The poisonous dried tips of this plant, with anthelmintic properties, used as a drug.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.ii:
    • th'aged Nurse her calling to her bowre, / Had gathered Rew, and Sauine , and the flowre / Of Camphara, and Calamint, and Dill, / All which she in a earthen Pot did poure [...].
  • The eastern red cedar, Juniperus virginiana .

    • Anagrams

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    ravin

    English

    Alternative forms

    * ravine

    Noun

    (-)
  • (obsolete) food obtained by violence; plunder; prey; raven
  • * 1850 , :
    • Tho' Nature, red in tooth and claw / With ravine , shriek'd against his creed

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) ravenous
  • * 1598 , , III. ii. 117:
    • Better 'twere / I met the ravin lion when he roared / With sharp constraint of hunger;
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