herb Robert

American  

noun

plural

herbs Robert

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

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herb Robert British  

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of herb Robert

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

Example Sentences

There, too, the herb Robert hides, and its foliage, turning colour, lies like crimson lace on the bank.

From Wild Life in a Southern County by Jefferies, Richard

Crimson stalks and leaves of herb Robert stretch across the little cavities of the mound; lower, and rising almost from the water of the ditch, the wild parsnip spreads its broad fan.

From Nature Near London by Jefferies, Richard

Bleeding could be stopped by the herb Robert, a wild geranium of our hedges, its power being shown by the beautiful red of its young and fading leaves.

From Chatterbox, 1906 by Clarke, J. Erskine (John Erskine)

The Touch-me-not and the herb Robert adopt a different plan, and convert their seed-cases into pistols for the firing of seeds at as wide range as twenty feet or more.

From Little Masterpieces of Science: The Naturalist as Interpreter and Seer by Iles, George

Here is herb Robert in flower—its leaves are scarlet; a leaf of St. John's-wort, too, has become scarlet; the bramble leaves are many shades of crimson; one plant of tormentil has turned yellow.

From Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies by Jefferies, Richard