Yerba Buena

American  

[yair-buh bwey-nuh, yur-buh] / ˈyɛər bə ˈbweɪ nə, ˈyɜr bə /

noun

1. 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.

2. 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.

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Example Sentences

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

Since Lacy’s first major retrospective in 2019 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, she has found herself working inside museums as never before.

From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2022

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

From San Francisco to Punta Pedro the road runs past Dolores—an ancient mission of the Franciscan monks, whose port was, as already stated, Yerba Buena, previous to becoming re-christened San Francisco.

From The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea by Reid, Mayne