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Herbaceous   /ərbˈeɪʃəs/   Listen
Herbaceous

adjective
1.
Characteristic of a nonwoody herb or plant part.



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"Herbaceous" Quotes from Famous Books



... Doctor—only neighborly?" asked the old man. The Doctor smiled, nodded, and seemed to exhale a more powerful herbaceous odor. ...
— The Story Of Kennett • Bayard Taylor

... ways are lonely! Winds that bluster, winds that shout, Battle with the strong laburnum, Toss the sad brown leaves about. In the gay herbaceous border, Now a scene of wild disorder, The last dear hollyhock has flamed his ...
— The Verse-Book Of A Homely Woman • Elizabeth Rebecca Ward, AKA Fay Inchfawn

... that any peculiar influence has been traced to locality, independent of climate. Almost the only case I can find recorded is mentioned in that repertory of natural-history facts, "The Origin of Species," viz. that herbaceous groups have a tendency to become arboreal in islands. In the animal world, I cannot find that any facts have been pointed out as showing the special influence of locality in giving a peculiar facies to the several ...
— Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection - A Series of Essays • Alfred Russel Wallace

... same kind of station, or food, or climate; those are the indirect opponents; the direct opponents are, of course, those which prey upon an animal or vegetable. The helpers may also be regarded as direct and indirect: in the case of a carnivorous animal, for example, a particular herbaceous plant may, in multiplying, be an indirect helper, by enabling the herbivora on which the carnivore preys to get more food, and thus to nourish the carnivore more abundantly; the direct helper may be best illustrated by reference to some parasitic creature, such as the tape-worm. ...
— Darwiniana • Thomas Henry Huxley

... tracts which they call diente de perro. I could see nothing but the jagged teeth of whitish rock, and the green swelling stems of the plantain, from ten to fifteen feet in height, and as large as a man's leg, or larger. The stalks of the plantain are juicy and herbaceous, and of so yielding a texture, that with a sickle you might entirely sever the largest of them at a single stroke. How such a multitude of succulent plants could find nourishment on what seemed to the eye little else than barren rock, I ...
— Letters of a Traveller - Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America • William Cullen Bryant

... warm, herbaceous, and chewing. Bolts a bit of bread and butter. Says, "Bless my soul, sir! ...
— Bleak House • Charles Dickens

... without my seeking. We were seated together one evening, he over his everlasting corrections, and I in some especially herbaceous nook of the Materia Medica, when Tom ...
— Dead Man's Rock • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch



Words linked to "Herbaceous" :   herbaceous plant, nonwoody, botany



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