herbaceous
/(h)ɝˈbeɪ.ʃəs/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.79 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "[…] and it contains a very good selection of shrubs and herbaceous plants, which, having good soil and plentiful drenchings of water from a garden-engine all the summer, thrive to admiration."
- "Iversen holds that these changes indicate the arrival of farmers, the phase of Landnam or land occupation, that the charcoal comes from clearance fires; that herbaceous pollen suggests the opening-up of the land; cereals, fields; the plantains, weeds; and birch and hazel, regeneration of the forests after the exhaustion of the plot."
- "The sommelier noted strong herbaceous notes of thyme and lemongrass in the sauvignon blanc."
- "The hippopotamus is an herbaceous animal."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁-der. Proto-Indo-European *gʰer-dʰ? Latin herba Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂ks Proto-Italic *-āks Latin -āx Proto-Indo-European *-éyos Proto-Italic *-ejos Proto-Italic *-eos Latin -eus Latin -āceus Latin herbāceusbor. English herbaceous Borrowed from Latin herbāceus (“grassy”). By surface analysis, herb + -aceous.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /(h)ɝˈbeɪ.ʃəs/
- British English: /hə(ɹ)ˈbeɪ.ʃəs/
Usage
Inflected Forms
more herbaceous (comparative)
most herbaceous (superlative)