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Anemopsis Californica
(gcide) | Yerba \Yer"ba\, n. [Sp.] (Bot.)
An herb; a plant.
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Note: This word is much used in compound names of plants in
Spanish; as, yerba buena [Sp., a good herb], a name
applied in Spain to several kinds of mint ({Mentha
sativa}, Mentha viridis, etc.), but in California
universally applied to a common, sweet-scented labiate
plant (Micromeria Douglasii).
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Yerba dol osa. [Sp., herb of the she-bear.] A kind of
buckthorn (Rhamnus Californica).
Yerba mansa. [Sp., a mild herb, soft herb.] A plant
(Anemopsis Californica) with a pungent, aromatic
rootstock, used medicinally by the Mexicans and the
Indians.
Yerba reuma. [Cf. Sp. reuma rheum, rheumatism.] A low
California undershrub (Frankenia grandifolia).
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anemopsis californica
(wn) | Anemopsis californica
n 1: stoloniferous herb of southwestern United States and Mexico
having a pungent rootstock and small spicate flowers with
white bracts suggesting an anemone [syn: yerba mansa,
Anemopsis californica] |
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