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Grasses vs Herbage - What's the difference?

grasses | herbage |

As nouns the difference between grasses and herbage

is that grasses is while herbage is herbs collectively.

As a verb grasses

is (grass).

grasses

English

Noun

(head)

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (grass)

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    herbage

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • Herbs collectively.
  • Herbaceous plant growth, especially grass.
  • *1841 , (Edgar Allan Poe), ‘A Descent into the Maelström’:
  • *:I threw myself upon my face, and clung to the scant herbage in an excess of nervous agitation.
  • * 1891 , Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country , Nebraska 2005, p. 97:
    • The dank breath of herbage , sodden with rain, came to her; the mists were barely visible, hovering above the dark ravines.
  • The fleshy, often edible, parts of plants.
  • (legal) The natural pasture of a land, considered as distinct from the land itself; hence, right of pasture (on another man's land).