different between vetiver vs verbena

English

Alternative forms

• vetyver, vetivert (the essential oil)

Etymology

From French vétyver (older spelling) or vétiver, from Tamil ?????????? (ve??iv?r).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?v?t?v?/

Noun

vetiver (countable and uncountable, plural vetivers)

1. The grass Chrysopogon zizanioides ( <= Vetiveria zizanioides), which is native to India, but planted throughout the tropics for its fragrant roots and for erosion control.
   • 2003, Anand Akhila, Mumkum Rani, 4: Chemical Conatituents and Essential Oil Biogenisis in Vetiveria zizanioides, Massimo Maffei (editor), Vetiveria: The Genus Vetiveria, page 73,

     Two types of vetiver have been found in India – (i) flowering or seeding vetiver which grows wild in North India, and (ii) non-flowering or non-seeding vetiver which is cultivated in South India.

   • 2007, R. Sinha, et al., Phytoremediation: Role of Plants in Site Management, S.N. Singh, R. D. Tripathi, Environmental Bioremediation Technologies, page 328,

     Vetiver can easily thrive in wetlands and can be used in the constructed wetlands for removal of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) and heavy metals from the polluted storm water, municipal and industrial wastewater, and effluents from abattoirs, feedlots, piggeries and other intensive livestock industries.

   • 2008, Humberto Blanco-Canqui, Principles of Soil Conservation and Management, page 237,

     Vetiver barriers are planted in 0.50–1m wide strips to minimize the land area under the barrier. Vetiver grass is the only species that is effective for controlling soil erosion on steep terrains (30 and 60% slope). Vetiver strips are also used as windbreaks.

2. The aromatic root of the grass.
3. An essential oil derived from the root; the fragrance of the oil.
   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 612,

     She pressed his hand and was gone in a mist of vetiver, abruptly as the other evening.

   • 2007, Parvesh Handa, Be Your Own Beautician, page 132,

     A sweet scent which relieves stress, tension and headache, promotes restful sleep, heals the skin, lowers high blood pressure and cures sunburn (when blended with cedarwood, clove, clary sage, pine, geranium, vetiver and patchouli).

   • 2010, Luca Turin, Tania Sanchez, Perfumes: The A-Z Guide, page 311,

     […] it came in a joyful fuzz of hair spray and noise, with a delicious, dissonant Habanita-like base of patchouli-vetiver-vanilla putting a growl in its voice.

Synonyms

• cuscus

Derived terms

• vetivene
• vetiverol
• vetivone

Translations

Italian

Noun

vetiver m (invariable)

1. vetiver

Anagrams

• vertevi, vivrete

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.