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).

Noun

(en noun)

Land that is covered mostly with water, with occasional marshy and soggy areas.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-01

, author=Nancy Langston , title=The Fraught History of a Watery World , volume=101, issue=1, page=59 , magazine= citation , passage=European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands , lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.}}