Herbage vs Shrub - 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).
A woody plant smaller than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same base.
(obsolete) To lop; to prune.
(Kenya) To mispronounce a word by replacing its consonant sound(s) with another or others of a similar place of articulation.
A liquor composed of vegetable acid, fruit juice (especially lemon), sugar, sometimes vinegar, and a small amount of spirit as a preservative. Modern shrub is usually non-alcoholic, but in earlier times it was often mixed with a substantial amount of spirit such as brandy or rum, thus making it a liqueur.
As nouns the difference between herbage and shrub
is that herbage is herbs collectively while shrub is a woody plant smaller than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same base.As a verb shrub is
to lop; to prune.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.
shrub
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) ; akin to Norwegian skrubba the dwarf cornel treeNoun
(en noun)Synonyms
* bush (plant)Derived terms
* semishrubby * shrubbery * shrubby * subshrub * undershrubVerb
- For example , ? sr?b)