Herbage vs Algae - What's the difference?
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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 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).
(alga)
(biology) Any of many aquatic photosynthetic organisms, whose size ranges from a single cell to giant kelps and whose form is very diverse; some are eukaryotic and some prokaryotic; includes the seaweeds.
Herbage is a related term of algae.
As nouns the difference between herbage and algae
is that herbage is herbs collectively while algae is (alga).herbage
English
Noun
(en-noun)- The dank breath of herbage , sodden with rain, came to her; the mists were barely visible, hovering above the dark ravines.