different between herbaceous vs cleavers

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin herb?ceus (“grassy”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /h?(?)?be?.??s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /h??be?.??s/
• Rhymes: -e???s

Adjective

herbaceous (comparative more herbaceous, superlative most herbaceous)

1. (botany) Not woody, lacking lignified tissues.
2. (wine) Not woody in flavor.
3. (dated) Feeding on herbs and soft plants.
   • 1861, Charles John Andersson, Lake Ngami, chapter XL, page 490

     The hippopotamus is an herbaceous animal.

Antonyms

• woody

Derived terms

Translations

English

Etymology 1

Noun

cleavers

1. plural of cleaver

Etymology 2

From Middle English clivers, probably from Old English clife (“burdock”).

Noun

cleavers (uncountable)

1. Galium aparine, a herbaceous annual bedstraw of the family Rubiaceae.
   • 1998, Terry R. Roberts, Metabolic Pathways of Agrochemicals (part 1, page 448)

     Quinmerac is primarily used for the post-emergence control of cleavers, speedwells and other broad-leaved weeds in cereals, oilseed rape and sugar beet.

Synonyms

• cleaverwort

Translations

Usage notes

• Plural in form; used with singular or plural verb.

References

• “cleavers”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).
• “cleavers”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, ?ISBN