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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On a sunny day before the summit, workers washed the streets and placed new grass at the Yerba Buena Gardens because of heavy use over the summer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 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
At one point the author is sent to fetch water from Sausalito, a town just north of today’s Golden Gate Bridge, “as the water at Yerba Buena was bad, and very scarce.”
From Scientific American ● Jun. 13, 2019
He had worked as a concert promoter; he had traveled the world; and his photography had hung in San Francisco’s prestigious Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.
From New York Times ● Dec. 12, 2018
You'll see Yerba Buena Island—some call it Goat Island—in a minute, on the right of it, and Angel Island on the left.
From Gold Seekers of '49 by Stephens, Charles H.
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