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Yerba

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).

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yerba

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.

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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.