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Herbage vs Flower - What's the difference?

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Herbage is a related term of flower.


As nouns the difference between herbage and flower

is that herbage is herbs collectively while flower is a colorful, conspicuous structure associated with angiosperms, frequently scented and attracting various insects, and which may or may not be used for sexual reproduction or flower can be something that flows, such as a river.

As a verb flower is

to put forth blooms.

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).

    • flower

    English

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    Alternative forms

    * flowre (obsolete)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) flour, from (etyl) flur, from (etyl) (more at (l)).

    Noun