herbage
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle French herbage and Old French erbage, from Medieval Latin herbaticum, from Latin herba (“grass”); alternatively, herb + -age.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
herbage (usually uncountable, plural herbages)
- Herbs collectively.
- Herbaceous plant growth, especially grass.
- 1841, Edgar Allan Poe, ‘A Descent into the Maelström’:
- I threw myself upon my face, and clung to the scant herbage in an excess of nervous agitation.
- 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, p. 97:
- The dank breath of herbage, sodden with rain, came to her; the mists were barely visible, hovering above the dark ravines.
- 1841, Edgar Allan Poe, ‘A Descent into the Maelström’:
- The fleshy, often edible, parts of plants.
- (law) The natural pasture of a land, considered as distinct from the land itself; hence, right of pasture (on another man's land).
Translations[edit]
herbs collectively
herbaceous plant growth, especially grass
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fleshy, often edible, parts of plants
right of pasture
French[edit]
Noun[edit]
herbage m (plural herbages)
External links[edit]
- “herbage” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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