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- Herbaceous - a. - Of or pertaining to herbs; having the nature, texture, or characteristics, of an herb; as, herbaceous plants; an herbaceous stem.
- Glycyrrhiza - n. - A genus of papilionaceous herbaceous plants, one species of which (G. glabra), is the licorice plant, the roots of which have a bittersweet mucilaginous taste.
- Banana - n. - A perennial herbaceous plant of almost treelike size (Musa sapientum); also, its edible fruit. See Musa.
- Verbena - n. - A genus of herbaceous plants of which several species are extensively cultivated for the great beauty of their flowers; vervain.
- Arrow grass - n. - An herbaceous grasslike plant (Triglochin palustre, and other species) with pods opening so as to suggest barbed arrowheads.
- Tephrosia - n. - A genus of leguminous shrubby plants and herbs, mostly found in tropical countries, a few herbaceous species being North American. The foliage is often ashy-pubescent, whence the name.
- Birthroot - n. - An herbaceous plant (Trillium erectum), and its astringent rootstock, which is said to have medicinal properties.
- Anthemis - n. - Chamomile; a genus of composite, herbaceous plants.
- Calendula - n. - A genus of composite herbaceous plants. One species, Calendula officinalis, is the common marigold, and was supposed to blossom on the calends of every month, whence the name.
- Wood - n. - The fibrous material which makes up the greater part of the stems and branches of trees and shrubby plants, and is found to a less extent in herbaceous stems. It consists of elongated tubular or needle-shaped cells of various kinds, usually interwoven with the shinning bands called silver grain.
- Herbaceous - a. - Of or pertaining to herbs; having the nature, texture, or characteristics, of an herb; as, herbaceous plants; an herbaceous stem.
- Aloe - n. - A genus of succulent plants, some classed as trees, others as shrubs, but the greater number having the habit and appearance of evergreen herbaceous plants; from some of which are prepared articles for medicine and the arts. They are natives of warm countries.
- Primulaceous - a. - Of or pertaining to an order of herbaceous plants (Primulaceae), of which the primrose is the type, and the pimpernel, the cyclamen, and the water violet are other examples.
- Trumpetweed - n. - An herbaceous composite plant (Eupatorium purpureum), often having hollow stems, and bearing purplish flowers in small corymbed heads.
- Mudwort - n. - A small herbaceous plant growing on muddy shores (Limosella aquatica).
- Euphorbia - n. - Spurge, or bastard spurge, a genus of plants of many species, mostly shrubby, herbaceous succulents, affording an acrid, milky juice. Some of them are armed with thorns. Most of them yield powerful emetic and cathartic products.
- Cardoon - n. - A large herbaceous plant (Cynara Cardunculus) related to the artichoke; -- used in cookery and as a salad.
- Caltrap - n. - A genus of herbaceous plants (Tribulus) of the order Zygophylleae, having a hard several-celled fruit, armed with stout spines, and resembling the military instrument of the same name. The species grow in warm countries, and are often very annoying to cattle.
- Viola - n. - A genus of polypetalous herbaceous plants, including all kinds of violets.
- Coreopsis - n. - A genus of herbaceous composite plants, having the achenes two-horned and remotely resembling some insect; tickseed. C. tinctoria, of the Western plains, the commonest plant of the genus, has been used in dyeing.
- Caulis - n. - An herbaceous or woody stem which bears leaves, and may bear flowers.
- Carex - n. - A numerous and widely distributed genus of perennial herbaceous plants of the order Cypreaceae; the sedges.
- Palma Christi - - A plant (Ricinus communis) with ornamental peltate and palmately cleft foliage, growing as a woody perennial in the tropics, and cultivated as an herbaceous annual in temperate regions; -- called also castor-oil plant.
- Dogbane - n. - A small genus of perennial herbaceous plants, with poisonous milky juice, bearing slender pods pods in pairs.
- Equisetum - n. - A genus of vascular, cryptogamic, herbaceous plants; -- also called horsetails.
- Barrenwort - n. - An herbaceous plant of the Barberry family (Epimedium alpinum), having leaves that are bitter and said to be sudorific.