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herbage
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun herbage has 1 sense
- herbage(n = noun.plant) pasturage - succulent herbaceous vegetation of pasture land; Array is a kind of herb, herbaceous plant
CIDE DICTIONARY
herbage, n. [F. See Herb.].
- Herbs collectively; green food beasts; grass; pasture. Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- The liberty or right of pasture in the forest or in the grounds of another man. Blount. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
herbage, n.
1 herbs collectively.
2 the succulent part of herbs, esp. as pasture.
3 Law the right of pasture on another person's land.
1 herbs collectively.
2 the succulent part of herbs, esp. as pasture.
3 Law the right of pasture on another person's land.
Etymology
ME f. OF erbage f. med.L herbaticum, herbagium right of pasture, f. L herba herb
ROGET THESAURUS
herbage
Vegetable
N vegetable, vegetable kingdom, flora, verdure, plant, tree, shrub, bush, creeper, herb, herbage, grass, annual, perennial, biennial, triennial, exotic, timber, forest, wood, woodlands, timberland, hurst, frith, holt, weald, park, chase, greenwood, brake, grove, copse, coppice, bocage, tope, clump of trees, thicket, spinet, spinney, underwood, brushwood, scrub, boscage, bosk, ceja, chaparal, motte, arboretum, bush, jungle, prairie, heath, heather, fern, bracken, furze, gorse, whin, grass, turf, pasture, pasturage, turbary, sedge, rush, weed, fungus, mushroom, toadstool, lichen, moss, conferva, mold, growth, alfalfa, alfilaria, banyan, blow, blowth, floret, petiole, pin grass, timothy, yam, yew, zinnia, foliage, branch, bough, ramage, stem, tigella, spray, leaf, flower, blossom, bine, flowering plant, timber tree, fruit tree, pulse, legume, vegetable, vegetal, vegetive, vegitous, herbaceous, herbal, botanic, sylvan, silvan, arborary, arboreous, arborescent, arborical, woody, grassy, verdant, verdurous, floral, mossy, lignous, ligneous, wooden, leguminous, vosky, cespitose, turf-like, turfy, endogenous, exogenous, green-robed senators of mighty woods, this is the forest primeval.
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