Yerba Buena

[ yair-buh bwey-nuh, yur-buh ]

noun

1. an island in San Francisco Bay between Oakland and San Francisco, California: a 500 feet (152 meters) two-story tunnel across this island connects the two spans of the San Francisco–Oakland bridge.
2. yerba buena, a trailing plant, Satureja douglasii, of the mint family, native to the Pacific coast of North America, having egg-shaped leaves, solitary white flowers, and branches that root at the tips, used formerly in medicine as an anthelmintic and emmenagogue.

Example Sentences

The little village of Yerba Buena has now grown to be the largest city on the Pacific coast and one that is known the world over.

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Five years afterward this village of Yerba Buena contained about fifty people and a dozen houses.

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Yerba Buena awoke to the sunrise of July 8, 1846, with a spirit of festive anticipation and a certain relief.

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We were hardly opposite Yerba Buena Island, however, when we ran into a fog that completely engulfed us.

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San Francisco grew from the Yerba Buena hamlet in sixty years.

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