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herbaceous 1. designating or relating to plants or plant parts that are fleshy as opposed to woody 2. (of petals and sepals) green and leaflike herbaceous [hər′bā·shəs] (botany) Resembling or pertaining to a herb. Pertaining to a stem with little or no woody tissue. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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And Captain Nemo, not wishing to entangle his screw in this herbaceous mass, kept some yards beneath the surface of the waves. Mosfeia had disappeared from the horizon long ere this, and the Mandara country was developing to the gaze of our aeronauts its astonishing fertility, with its forests of acacias, its locust-trees covered with red flowers, and the herbaceous plants of its fields of cotton and indigo trees. The long warm rain had done strange things to the herbaceous beds which bordered the walk by the lower wall. |
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