herb Robert


noun,plural herbs Robert.
  1. a wild geranium, Geranium robertianum, having fernlike, scented leaves and reddish-purple flowers.

Origin of herb Robert

1
1250–1300; Middle English <Medieval Latin herba Robertī Robert's herb

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 Torrey
  • herb 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 Burroughs
  • That 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

herb Robert

nounplural herbs Robert
  1. a low-growing N temperate geraniaceous plant, Geranium robertianum, with strongly scented divided leaves and small pink flowers

Origin of herb Robert

1
C13: from Medieval Latin herba Roberti herb of Robert, probably named after St Robert, 11th-century French ecclesiastic

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