herbaceous
Syllables: her·ba·ceous/hə(ɹ)ˈbeɪ.ʃəs/US/(h)ɝˈbeɪ.ʃəs/
herbaceous adjective: not woody, lacking lignified tissues.
Adjective
herbaceous (comparative more herbaceous, superlative most herbaceous)
- Not woody, lacking lignified tissues.
- […] and it contains a very good selection of shrubs and herbaceous plants, which, having good soil and plentiful drenchings of water from a garden-engine all the summer, thrive to admiration.1859, Shirley Hibberd, The Town Garden, page 53
- Iversen holds that these changes indicate the arrival of farmers, the phase of Landnam or land occupation, that the charcoal comes from clearance fires; that herbaceous pollen suggests the opening-up of the land; cereals, fields; the plantains, weeds; and birch and hazel, regeneration of the...1958 [1946], Frederick E. Zeuner, Dating The Past: An Introduction To Geochronology, fourth edition, London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., pages 78-79
- Not woody in flavor.
- The sommelier noted strong herbaceous notes of thyme and lemongrass in the sauvignon blanc.
- Feeding on herbs and soft plants.
- The hippopotamus is an herbaceous animal.1861, Charles John Andersson, Lake Ngami, chapter XL, page 490
herbaceous meaning in Bengali
herbaceous in Bengali
- তৃণজাতীয়, বীরুৎ জাতীয় উদ্ভিদ সংক্রান্ত
Examples of herbaceous in a sentence
- A semiligneous stem is partly woody and partly herbaceous.
- All trees and herbaceous perennials are sychnocarpous.
- Many of the 25 the wine panel tasted also exhibited vegetal, cedary, herbaceous, roasted and crushed-fruit flavors.
Antonyms of herbaceous
Forms of herbaceous
| comparative | more herbaceous |
|---|---|
| superlative | most herbaceous |
Origin of herbaceous
Borrowed from Latin herbāceus (“grassy”). By surface analysis, herb + -aceous.
Words formed from herbaceous
Words that rhyme with herbaceous
- gracious
- sequacious
- tenacious
- vexatious
- hellacious
- ostentatious
- rapacious
- sebaceous
- vinaceous
- vivacious
- -aceous
- acanthaceous
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- alsinaceous
- audacious
- capacious
- contumacious
- cretaceous
- fallacious
- farinaceous
- flirtatious
- inefficacious
- juglandaceous
- mendacious
- micaceous
- orchidaceous
- perspicacious
- pertinacious
- salacious
- saponaceous
- spacious
- strobilaceous
- veracious
- voracious
- Acacius
- acinaceous
- alliaceous
- amentaceous
- amylaceous
- annonaceous
- apocynaceous
- argillaceous
- atramentaceous
- avenaceous
- bardacious
- bulbaceous
- camphoraceous
- camphrous
- carbonaceous
- cetaceous
- cucurbitaceous
- curvaceous
- dicacious
- edacious
- efficacious
- erinaceous
- fabaceous
- frumentaceous
- lamentacious
- lauraceous
- liliaceous
Questions about herbaceous
- What does herbaceous mean?
- Herbaceous means not woody, lacking lignified tissues.
- What is herbaceous in Bengali?
- Herbaceous in Bengali is তৃণজাতীয়, বীরুৎ জাতীয় উদ্ভিদ সংক্রান্ত. See Herbaceous meaning in Bengali.
- What part of speech is herbaceous?
- Herbaceous is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce herbaceous?
- Herbaceous is pronounced /hə(ɹ)ˈbeɪ.ʃəs/ (UK).
Words near herbaceous in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: herbaceous (page history and authors); Herbaceous (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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