Noun

(en-noun)

, a species of holly native to southern South America; or the dried leaves and twigs of this plant, used to make the caffeine-rich beverage .

* {{quote-book, year=1839, author=Charles Darwin, title=The Voyage of the Beagle , chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=The storehouses at Talcahuano had been burst open, and great bags of cotton, yerba , and other valuable merchandise were scattered on the shore. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1854, author=P. L. Simmonds, title=The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=This was the place at which the leaves and small sprigs of the yerba tree, when brought from the woods, were first scorched--fire being set to the logs of wood within it. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1910, author=Various, title=Argentina From A British Point Of View, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=His preparations for breakfast are simple, and he is ready to start out after half an hour spent in imbibing a few mates full of yerba infusion. }}

Noun

(en noun)

* {{quote-book, year=1850, author=William Cullen Bryant, title=Letters of a Traveller, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage="At the same time we got a yerb " (such was his pronunciation) "on the hills, which some call lion-heart, and others snake-head." }}

* {{quote-book, year=1895, author=Charles Egbert Craddock, title=The Phantoms Of The Foot-Bridge, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=When he ventured to sneeze, Mrs. Roxby compounded and administered a "yerb tea," a sovereign remedy against colds, which he tasted on compulsion and in great doubt, and swallowed with alacrity and confidence, finding its basis the easily recognizable "toddy." }}

* {{quote-book, year=1911, author=Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, title=Brother Copas, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=The ancients, by which I mean the Greeks, set amazin' store by the yerb . }}