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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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
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
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
A faint twilight veiled The leafless, shadowy trees and herbless plains.
From The Epic of Hades In Three Books by Sir Lewis Morris
Yet eastward, veiled in vapour white as snow, The grim black herbless heights that scorn the sun And mock the face of morning rose to show The work of earth-born fire and earthquake done.
From Astrophel and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne, Vol. VI by Algernon Charles Swinburne
