herb
noun
a flowering plant whose stem above ground does not become woody.
herbless
-
a word derived from
herb.
Example Sentences
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The World was void, The populous and the powerful was a lump,70 Seasonless, herbless, treeless, manless, lifeless— A lump of death—a chaos of hard clay.
From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4 by Ernest Hartley Coleridge
On leafless grove and herbless lawn Warm lie the yellow beams of noon; Yet winter is not gone.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 81, July, 1864 by Various
At twelve I rode to a bold summit of herbless granite whence I observed the Canobolas, bearing north 122 degrees east, and took angles on several hills.
From Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 1 by Thomas Mitchell
They gained the herbless ploughed field and took their station in its center just as the flames darted round on each side of them.
From Woman on the American Frontier A Valuable and Authentic History of the Heroism, Adventures, Privations, Captivities, Trials, and Noble Lives and Deaths of the "Pioneer Mothers of the Republic" by William Worthington Fowler
All around were the monstrous, arid, herbless, savage, cruel ramparts of the plateau.
From Overland by J. W. (John William) De Forest
