Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Relating to or characteristic of an herb as distinguished from a woody plant.
- adj. Green and leaflike in appearance or texture.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining to or of the nature of herbs.
- Feeding on vegetables; herbivorous.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to herbs; having the nature, texture, or characteristics, of an herb
WordNet 3.0
- adj. characteristic of a nonwoody herb or plant part
Etymologies
- From Latin herbāceus ("grassy"). (Wiktionary)
- From Latin herbāceus, from herba, herb. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“He's coming up to ask me about something he calls a herbaceous border.”
“HERBACEOUS: Many wines have a distinctive herbal smell that is generally described as herbaceous.”
“Most annuals and many biennials are herbaceous, that is their aboveground growth is green, pliable, and tender.”
“Then you get off in disgust and shoot yourself, and they bury you in what you proudly called your herbaceous border, and people wonder next year why the delphiniums are so luxuriant -- but you are not there to tell them.”
“Trees and shrubs are perennials, of course; in these the stems are woody, but we are considering only those known as herbaceous perennials, having stems of a more or less soft texture that, with the exception of a few evergreen species, die back each fall, new ones appearing the following spring.”
“No doubt in front of them was some kind of herbaceous border.”
“A monocot is herbaceous, meaning that it is green outside and soft inside, as opposed to woody stems which is hard inside and out and is made mainly of xylem.”
“Herbal encyclopedias describe an herb as a small seed-bearing plant with fleshy, not woody parts - hence the term "herbaceous" as in perennial coneflowers with soft, succulent green stems that die back to the ground in winter.”
“If you love these crunchy, thick walled, salty, sour, spicy, herbaceous treats like I do, wait til you see how easy they are to make.”
The Huffington Post: Meathead Goldwyn: No Fuss Kosher Dill Pickled Green Tomatoes
“If you love the crunchy, thick walled, salty, sour, spicy, herbaceous treats like I do, wait til you see how easy they are to make.”
The Huffington Post: Meathead Goldwyn: No Fuss Kosher Dill Pickled Green Tomatoes
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘herbaceous’.
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CULI - wine-tasting adjectives
In this area of expertise nouns are frequently used as adjectives (almond, bacon, cider, diesel, fennel, fresh-cut hay, wool) or new adjectives are formed (appley, berrylike, citrusy, full-bodied, ...
acetic, acidic, aged, angular, appley, astringent, attractive, austere, berrylike, big, bitter, brawny and 511 more...
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Describing the Taste of Foods
yummy, zesty, piquant, pungent, sharp, spicy, poignant, delicious, ambrosial, appetizing, delectable, heavenly and 194 more...
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A Galimafrée of Plant Anatomy & Morph...
A hodgepodge, jumble, jambalaya, *gallimaufry, circus and tent revival of plant anatomy and morphology terms and phrases - its a big tent, and no tickets are required.
*array, collecti...naked bud, leaf blade, brochidodromous, serrate, cork cambium, rhizomatous, flower stalk, deciduous sepal, petal, whorl, nectar gland, stamen and 1348 more...
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herb
how herb is used
herb-market, herb of friendship, herb carpenter, herb paralysy, herb Peter, herb paper, herb fluellin, herb of repentance, herb of the cross, herb beer, herb terrible, in the herb and 90 more...
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Words sung by: Belle and Sebastian
beguiling, herbaceous, peninsula, suffragette, damascan, hastening, berserk, overtime, leccy, bestow, swathe, arab strap and 193 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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kat's words
ecumenical, cacophony, clatter, marimba, bamboo, saffron, slice, mercurial, pomegranate, cranky, slipshod, scritch and 511 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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bobfet1's Words
anathema, schadenfreude, sturm und drang, dadaism, serendipitous, obfuscate, kibosh, salacious, misogyny, kismet, madrasah, circumlocute and 129 more...
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odorific
smelling words
odoriferous, malodorous, heavenly, redolent, putrid, delectable, stagnant, fragrant, smelly, noisome, noxious, fetid and 47 more...
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Key it out
Recalling words from Botany 3something--Taxonomy
abaxial, umbel, erose, campanulate, dehiscence, achene, inflorescence, pinnate, palmate, perianth, orbicular, baccate and 33 more...
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Green
Words meaning green.
olivascent, olivescent, olivaceous, olive, virid, glaucous, glaucescent, virent, virescent, viridescent, herbaceous, smaragdine and 8 more...
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botanica
liverwort, quaking aspen, weeping willow, sequoia, mahogany, manzanita, cycad, gymnosperm, angiosperm, sporophyte, epiphyte, dicot and 75 more...
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acier's Words
clerestory, didactic, peripheral, avuncular, eglantine, ribaldry, uxorious, malfeasance, malapropism, maudlin, mistral, crenellation and 15 more...
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the garden
"Won't you meet me at the gates
Won't you meet me at the gates
Won't you meet me at the gates
To the garden"oak, herbaceous, willow, pine, juniper, birch, cedar, yew, hawthorn, honeysuckle, lilac, lavender and 71 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for herbaceous.
Prolagus Another sunny day, I met you up in the garden
You were digging plants, I dug you, beg your pardon
I took a photograph of you in the herbaceous border
It broke the heart of men and flowers and girls and trees.
(Another sunny day, by Belle and Sebastian) Apr 28, 2008