Word Meanings - YERBA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An herb; a plant. Note: This word is much used in compound names of plants in Spanish; as, yerba buena Etym: , a name applied in Spain to several kinds of mint , but in California universally applied to a common, sweet-scented labiate -- Yerba

Additional info about word: YERBA

An herb; a plant. Note: This word is much used in compound names of plants in Spanish; as, yerba buena Etym: , a name applied in Spain to several kinds of mint , but in California universally applied to a common, sweet-scented labiate -- Yerba mansa. Etym: A plant with a pungent, aromatic rootstock, used medicinally by the Mexicans and the Indians. -- Yerba reuma. Etym: A low California undershrub .

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• APPLICABLE
  Capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the case under consideration. -- Ap"pli*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Ap"pli*ca*bly, adv.
• SWEETLY
  In a sweet manner.
• SWEETISH
  Somewhat sweet. -- Sweet"ish*ness, n.
• SWEETING
  1. A sweet apple. Ascham. 2. A darling; -- a word of endearment. Shak.
• SWEETHEART
  A lover of mistress.
• SCENTFUL
  1. Full of scent or odor; odorous. "A scentful nosegay." W. Browne. 2. Of quick or keen smell. The scentful osprey by the rock had fished. W. Browne.
• SWEETROOT
  Licorice.
• APPLICATIVE
  Having of being applied or used; applying; applicatory; practical. Bramhall. -- Ap"pli*ca*tive*ly, adv.
• COMMONER
  1. One of the common people; one having no rank of nobility. All below them even their children, were commoners, and in the eye law equal to each other. Hallam. 2. A member of the House of Commons. 3. One who has a joint right in common ground.
• PLANTIGRADA
  A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species.
• APPLICANCY
  The quality or state of being applicable.
• PLANTULE
  The embryo which has begun its development in the act of germination.
• YERBA
  An herb; a plant. Note: This word is much used in compound names of plants in Spanish; as, yerba buena Etym: , a name applied in Spain to several kinds of mint , but in California universally applied to a common, sweet-scented labiate -- Yerba
• COMPOUNDER
  A Jacobite who favored the restoration of James II, on condition of a general amnesty and of guarantees for the security of the civil and ecclesiastical constitution of the realm. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, compounds or mixes; as, a
• PLANTIGRADE
  Walking on the sole of the foot; pertaining to the plantigrades. Having the foot so formed that the heel touches the ground when the leg is upright.
• APPLICABILITY
  The quality of being applicable or fit to be applied.
• COMPOUNDABLE
  That may be compounded.
• UNIVERSALLY
  In a universal manner; without exception; as, God's laws are universally binding on his creatures.
• SWEETENING
  1. The act of making sweet. 2. That which sweetens.
• COMMONISH
  Somewhat common; commonplace; vulgar.
• DISPLANTATION
  The act of displanting; removal; displacement. Sir W. Raleigh.
• SUPPLANT
  heels, to throw down; sub under + planta the sole of the foot, also, 1. To trip up. "Supplanted, down he fell." Milton. 2. To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the
• FLORESCENT
  Expanding into flowers; blossoming. (more info) blossom, incho. fr. florere to blossom, fr. flos, floris, flower. See
• INTUMESCENT
  Swelling up; expanding.
• UNCOMMON
  Not common; unusual; infrequent; rare; hence, remarkable; strange; as, an uncommon season; an uncommon degree of cold or heat; uncommon courage. Syn. -- Rare; scarce; infrequent; unwonted. -- Un*com"mon*ly, adv. -- Un*com"mon*ness, n.
• REVALESCENT
  Growing well; recovering strength. (more info) revalescere; pref. re- re- + valescere, v. incho. fr. valere to be
• ADOLESCENT
  Growing; advancing from childhood to maturity. Schools, unless discipline were doubly strong, Detain their adolescent charge too long. Cowper. (more info) up to; ad + the inchoative olescere to grow: cf. F. adolescent. See
• CONCUPISCENTIOUS
  Concupiscent.
• LAPIDESCENT
  Undergoing the process of becoming stone; having the capacity of being converted into stone; having the quality of petrifying bodies.
• CONVALESCENTLY
  In the manner of a convalescent; with increasing strength or vigor.
• FELLOW-COMMONER
  A student at Cambridge University, England, who commons, or dines, at the Fellow's table.
• UNAPPLIABLE
  Inapplicable. Milton.
• DELITESCENT
  Lying hid; concealed.
• INTERCOMMON
  To graze cattle promiscuously in the commons of each other, as the inhabitants of adjoining townships, manors, etc. (more info) 1. To share with others; to participate; especially, to eat at the same table. Bacon.