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Webster 1913 Edition
Yerba
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Yer′ba
,Noun.
[Sp.]
(Bot.)
An herb; a plant.
☞ This word is much used in compound names of plants in Spanish; as, yerba buena
[Sp., a good herb]
, a name applied in Spain to several kinds of mint (Mentha sativa
, Mentha viridis
, etc.), but in California universally applied to a common, sweet-scented labiate plant (Micromeria Douglasii
). Yerba dol osa
. [Sp., herb of the she-bear.]
A kind of buckthorn (
– Rhamnus Californica
). Yerba mansa
. [Sp., a mild herb, soft herb.]
A plant (
– Anemopsis Californica
) with a pungent, aromatic rootstock, used medicinally by the Mexicans and the Indians. Yerba reuma
. [Cf. Sp.
reuma
rheum, rheumatism.] A low California undershrub (
Frankenia grandifolia
).