herbage

[US]/'hɜːbɪdʒ/
[UK]/'ɝbɪdʒ/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. vegetation; greenery; grasses

Phrases & Collocations

fresh herbage

aromatic herbage

medicinal herbage

Example Sentences

Ingredients: natural herbage whiten essence、green tea extracts、wild chrysanthemum、aloe、constringe agency ets.

Results indicate that phanerophyte is the dominant synusia in the shrub layer and hemicryptophyte in the herbage layer, and Selaginella is the only species on the forest floor.

Ingredients: natural herbage whiten essence、pearl powder、wild chrysanthemum、sanguisorba、ginseng、honeysuckle ets.

Real-world Examples

It caused devastation by burrowing and by devouring the herbage which might have maintained millions of sheep and cattle.

Source: New Concept English. British Edition. Book Four (Translation)

The pavement of the court-yard showed the black stains produced in time by lichens, herbage, and the absence of all movement or friction.

Source: Eugénie Grandet

To a walker practised in such places a difference between impact on maiden herbage, and on the crippled stalks of a slight footway, is perceptible through the thickest boot or shoe.

Source: Returning Home

Where the footpath begins to go steeply and abruptly up the Alps, the heath, with its short grass and pungent herbage, at once sends out its soft perfume to meet the wayfarer.

Source: Heidi

Nearer to the town, the air had a faint taste and smell of smoke; perhaps, after all, more a loss of the fragrance of grass and herbage than any positive taste or smell.

Source: The South and the North (Part 1)

At the foot they found the Narragansetts browsing the herbage of the bushes, and having mounted, they followed the movements of a guide, who, in the most deadly straits, had so often proved himself their friend.

Source: The Last of the Mohicans (Part One)

As he slowly slid inch by inch upon these, Knight made a last desperate dash at the lowest tuft of vegetation—the last outlying knot of starved herbage ere the rock appeared in all its bareness.

Source: A pair of blue eyes (Part 2)

The common goose does not sift the water, but uses its beak exclusively for tearing or cutting herbage, for which purpose it is so well fitted that it can crop grass closer than almost any other animal.

Source: On the Origin of Species

For it is in the most polished society that noisome reptiles and venomous serpents lurk under the rank herbage; and there is voluptuousness pampered by the still sultry air, which relaxes every good disposition before it ripens into virtue.

Source: Defending Feminism (Part 2)

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