Crossword clues for yerba
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- San Francisco Bay's __ Buena island
- California's ___ Buena Island
- --- Buena (island in San Francisco Bay)
- ________ Buena, San Francisco Bay island
- ___ mate (trendy drink)
- ___ mate (tealike drink)
- ___ mate (steeped beverage)
- ___ maté (S. A. beverage)
- ___ maté (brewed beverage)
- ___ maté (tealike beverage)
- ___ Buena Island in San Francisco Bay
- ___ buena (mint relative)
- __ maté: tealike beverage
- ___ Buena (island in San Francisco Bay)
- ___ Buena, Calif.
- San Francisco's ___ Buena Island
- ___ Buena Island, Calif.
- ___ buena (evergreen)
- ___ buena, evergreen plant
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- San Francisco Bay's ___ Buena Island
- ___ Buena, Calif
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- ___ mate (tealike beverage)
- __ Buena, town that became San Francisco
- ___ Buena (town that later became San Francisco)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Yerba \Yer"ba\, n. [Sp.] (Bot.) An herb; a plant.
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, viridis, etc.), but in California universally applied to a common, sweet-scented labiate plant ( Micromeria Douglasii).
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).
Wiktionary
n. (taxlink Ilex paraguariensis species noshow=1), a species of holly native to southern South America; or the dried leaves and twigs of this plant, used to make the caffeine-rich beverage mate#Etymology 3.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "yerba".
The true conquest of northern Arctica lay in yerba hay, in bathyrhiza wood, in pericoup and glycophyllon and eventually, when the market had expanded with population and industry, in chalcanthemum for city florists and pelts of cage-bred rover for city furriers.
The feet of Mistherd flew over yerba and outpaced windblown driftweed.