Yerba Buena
Americannoun
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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.
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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
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The accident happened north of Yerba Buena Road around 1:11 p.m. and involved a Mercedes traveling northbound, according to KTLA-TV Channel 5.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2023
The sculpture also serves a more practical or political purpose, marking Yerba Buena Island and the adjoining Treasure Island, a naval base from 1942 to 1997, as a new cultural destination.
From New York Times ● Jun. 9, 2023
Among them were military installations on islands, including the naval training station that housed 6,000 people on the 120-acre Yerba Buena in San Francisco Bay.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 24, 2020
The first book I examine is a traveler’s account of a ship journey to San Francisco, then called Yerba Buena, several years ahead of the gold rush of the mid-1800s.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 13, 2019
The place was then called Yerba Buena, or Good Herb, from the fact that an herb of that name, which was supposed to have great medicinal value, grew in rich luxuriance over the surrounding country.
From The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself by Peters, de Witt C.
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