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verbena

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n. ''Verbena'', a genus of herbaceous plants of which several species are extensively cultivated for the great beauty of their flowers; vervain.

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Verbena \Ver*be"na\, n. [L. See Vervain .] (Bot.) A genus of herbaceous plants of which several species are extensively cultivated for the great beauty of their flowers; vervain. Note: Verbena, or vervain, was used by the Greeks, the Romans, and the Druids, ...

Usage examples of verbena.

Bees wandered among the heliotrope and verbena and pots of sapphire agapanthus, and even that shady place felt the hot breath of the summer noon.

The perfumes of verbena and cymbidium and Yggdrasil entered the room, blending with the fusty, musty odours of the countless leather-bound volumes overflowing from the ancient bookcases that hid the walls.

A flurry of colorful wings flashed over the welcoming bloom of purple coneflower, the sunny coreopsis, fragrant verbena, and the reliable asters.

As a boy he had trailed along with his mother and Sofia through the mountain valleys gathering wild herbs, silk dalea, rock daisies, and the sweet sand verbena.

Martha, who was gathering Tellicherry peppercorns, orrisroot powder, bayberry bark, senna pods, lemon verbena and rosehips from her backyard for potpourri.

An artist of scent as well as form, it would seem, since caught in the center of the lower, sculpted shapes were mounds of sweet alyssum punctuated with occasional sprigs of verbena.

She had lemon verbena body lotion in one hand and evening primrose in the other.

Names flitted through Paul's mind, each with its picture imprinted by the book's mnemonic pulse: saguaro, burro bush, date palm, sand verbena, evening primrose, barrel cactus, incense bush, smoke tree, creosote bush .

Where it would grow, they introduced camel sage, onion grass, gobi feather grass, wild alfalfa, burrow bush, sand verbena, evening primrose, incense bush, smoke tree, creosote bush.

Names flitted through Paul's mind, each with its picture imprinted by the book's mnemonic pulse: saguaro, burro bush, date palm, sand verbena, evening primrose, barrel cactus, incense bush, smoke tree, creosote bush.

Lippia citriodora, yielding verbena oil, is commonly known as Lemon verbena.

Her maids rubbed her with soap of olive oil and ash of aloe, then rinsed her in water scented with lemon verbena, and dried her with soft cotton towels.

Arriving in the kitchen, Shimrod kindled a fire and brewed a pot of tea, using horehound for heart, penny-royal for savor and lemon verbena for zest, then took the tea into his day parlour.

For an instant, he was enclosed by the scent of lemon verbena that reminded him of her mother, who had worn no other scent, as perfume was distilled by Satan, while lemon verbena was a leaf from one of God’.

For an instant, he was enclosed by the scent of lemon verbena that reminded him of her mother, who had worn no other scent, as perfume was distilled by Satan, while lemon verbena was a leaf from one of God's fragrant trees.