herb Robert
a wild geranium, Geranium robertianum, having fernlike, scented leaves and reddish-purple flowers.
Origin of herb Robert
1- Also called red shanks.
Words Nearby herb Robert
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How to use herb Robert in a sentence
The little geranium known as herb-robert is a neighbor of the corydalis, and, like it, stands the cold remarkably well.
A Rambler's lease | Bradford Torreyherb Robert is exclusively a wood plant with us, but in England it strays quite out into the open fields and by the roadside.
Fresh Fields | John BurroughsThat third herb Robert one is just the drawing that nobody but me (never mind grammar) could have made.
Hortus Inclusus | John Ruskin
British Dictionary definitions for herb Robert
a low-growing N temperate geraniaceous plant, Geranium robertianum, with strongly scented divided leaves and small pink flowers
Origin of herb Robert
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