What is "forb"

Usage examples of "forb".

Nonetheless, the life of cool season plants assist in feeding the browsers and grass eaters during the cold winter months and forbs such as filaree and the cool season perennial grasses help cover the exposed soil when other plants have died back because of the cold.

He wondered how Helen Beaton and Joe Forbs would react if he returned to the hospital so soon after being shown the door.

It was a portion of the social security record on Joe Forbs, indicating the recent jobs he'd held along with his payments into the social security pool.

She looked up the addresses of Devonshire, Forbs, Maurice, Van Slyke, and Ullhof and wrote them down.

Don’t you think I know that the controls Jason Forbs sees in front of him are only dummies?

This is Oral Witness Engineer Jason Forbs, ready to relinquish command to inspection crew.

The protein-rich forbs were essential for the young to reach maturity before winter.

We drove into the Canyon of Burning Springs, the mouth and throat of which are no different from any other canyon: a trickle of water at the center, water-rounded stones along the sides among a sprinkle of low grasses and forbs and woody plants, then a long slope of rubble piled at the foot of the canyon walls, then the walls themselves, fissured and split, some parts actually overhanging us as we wandered slowly below.

On flats and benches and in the bottoms of ravines it could be almost jungle-like, like the place he'd landed, but on many sites the trees were scrubby, the canopy thin or broken, the forest floor patched and dappled with sunlight, green with forbs and graminoids.

But from from time to time he dismounted, leading it loose-reined along the road's edge, where it snatched bites of the grasses and forbs that flourished there.

It slowed, and with blurred wingstrokes hovered a moment, then dropped into the tangle of grass and forbs, to fly up with a rodent in its claws.