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.

plural Bennets

1. countableuncountableA surname transferred from the given name, a less common spelling of Bennett.
2. countableuncountableA 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 Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]

3. countableuncountableA city in Lancaster County, Nebraska, United States.