different between herbaceous vs verbena

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

Borrowed from Latin verb?na (“leaves or twigs of olive, myrtle, laurel, or other sacred plants employed in religious ceremonies”), from Proto-Indo-European *werb?- (see also Lithuanian virbas (“twig, branch, scion, rod”)), from *werb- (“to turn, bend”). Cognate with Middle Dutch warp, Middle Low German warp, German Warf, Danish varp, Swedish varp. Doublet of vervain.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /v??bin?/
• Rhymes: -i?n?

Noun

verbena (plural verbenas)

1. Verbena, a genus of herbaceous plants of which several species are extensively cultivated for the great beauty of their flowers; vervain.
   • 1918, Katherine Mansfield, Prelude (Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics paperback 2002, 116)

     Linda pulled a piece of verbena and crumpled it, and held her hands to her mother. -

Derived terms

• lemon verbena
• sweet verbena
• verbenalin
• verbenalol

Translations

See also

• verbena on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• verbena on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• verbena on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin verb?na.

Noun

verbena

1. verbena, beebrush (plant of genus Verbena)
2. (in the plural) the genus Verbena

Declension

Synonyms

• (plant and genus): rautayrtti

Italian

Etymology

From Latin verb?na, from Proto-Indo-European *werb?-, from *werb- (“to turn, bend”). Compare the doublet vermena.

Noun

verbena f (plural verbene)

1. verbena, vervain

Derived terms

• Verbenacee

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *werb?- (see also Lithuanian virbas (“twig, branch, scion, rod”)), from Proto-Indo-European *werb- (“to turn, bend”). Cognate with Middle Dutch warp, Middle Low German warp, German Warf, Danish varp, Swedish varp.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /u?er?be?.na/, [u??r?be?nä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ver?be.na/, [v?r?b??n?]

Noun

verb?na f (genitive verb?nae); first declension

1. foliage, especially that of olive, myrtle etc having religious and medicinal uses

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

References

• verbena in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• verbena in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• verbena in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• verbena in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• verbena in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese, from Latin verb?na, from Proto-Indo-European *werb?-, from *werb- (“to turn, bend”).

Noun

verbena f (plural verbenas)

1. verbena (any of the herbaceous flowering plant of the genus Verbena)

Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish berbena, from Latin verb?na, from Proto-Indo-European *werb?- (see also Lithuanian virbas (“twig, branch, scion, rod”)), from *werb- (“to turn, bend”). Cognate with Middle Dutch warp, Middle Low German warp, German Warf, Danish varp, Swedish varp.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /be??bena/, [be????e.na]

Noun

verbena f (plural verbenas)

1. verbena (plant)
2. a night-time fair or party

Derived terms

Further reading

• “verbena” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.