Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various western North American evergreen shrubs of the genus Eriodictyon, having tubular white to purple flowers and narrow leaves used in herbal medicine.
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- noun Plants native to southwestern
North America . Eriodictyon californicum or otherspecies in thegenus Eriodictyon, which havetraditionally been usedmedicinally . - noun
Hoja santa , aCentral American plant with sweet-scented leaves used to flavor food, Piper auritum.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun viscid evergreen shrub of western United States with white to deep lilac flowers; the sticky aromatic leaves are used in treating bronchial and pulmonary illnesses
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Every house in the Town of the Vines has its garden plot, corn and brown beans, and a row of peppers reddening in the sun, and in damp borders of the irrigating ditches clumps of yerba santa, horehound, catnip, and spikenard, wholesome herbs and curative, but if no peppers then nothing at all.
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Every house in the town of the vines has its garden plot, corn and brown beans and a row of peppers reddening in the sun; and in damp borders of the irrigating ditches clumps of yerba santa, horehound, catnip, and spikenard, wholesome herbs and curative, but if no peppers then nothing at all.
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lilies, manzanitas and madrone, and a few herbs cherished for medicinal value: yerba buena, yerba santa, yerba mansa, yerba de selva.
SFGate: Top News Stories home@sfchronicle.com (Joe Eaton 2010
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lilies, manzanitas and madrone, and a few herbs cherished for medicinal value: yerba buena, yerba santa, yerba mansa, yerba de selva.
SFGate: Top News Stories home@sfchronicle.com (Joe Eaton 2010
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