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Word Meanings - HERB - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A plant whose stem does not become woody and permanent, but dies, at least down to the ground, after flowering. Note: Annual herbs live but one season; biennial herbs flower the second season, and then die; perennial herbs produce new stems

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1. A plant whose stem does not become woody and permanent, but dies, at least down to the ground, after flowering. Note: Annual herbs live but one season; biennial herbs flower the second season, and then die; perennial herbs produce new stems year after year. 2. Grass; herbage. And flocks Grazing the tender herb. Milton. Herb bennet. See Bennet. -- Herb Christopher , an herb , whose root is used in nervous diseases; the baneberry. The name is occasionally given to other plants, as the royal fern, the wood betony, etc. -- Herb Gerard , the goutweed; -- so called in honor of St. Gerard, who used to be invoked against the gout. Dr. Prior. -- Herb grace, or Herb of grace. See Rue. -- Herb Margaret , the daisy. See Marguerite. -- Herb Paris , an Old World plant related to the trillium , commonly reputed poisonous. -- Herb Robert , a species of Geranium

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  • FLOWERY-KIRTLED
    Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton.
  • AFTERCAST
    A throw of dice after the game in ended; hence, anything done too late. Gower.
  • GROUNDWORK
    That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
  • FLOWER-DE-LUCE
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    p. p. of Grind. Chaucer.
  • AFTERPAINS
    The pains which succeed childbirth, as in expelling the afterbirth.
  • FLOWERY
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  • FLOWERLESSNESS
    State of being without flowers.
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