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roadside verbena

roadside verbena noun: purpletop vervain, Verbena bonariensis.

Noun

roadside verbena (plural roadside verbenas)

  1. Purpletop vervain, Verbena bonariensis.
    • Various measures were taken to avoid it, most popular being the suspension of certain herbs and tree branches over the doorways of dwellings and stables. Commonly used greenery were tansy, honesty, garlic, St. John's Wort, mountain ash, roadside verbena.1940, Rosetta E. Clarkson, Green Enchantments: The Magic Spell of Gardens, The Macmillan Company, page 271

Forms of roadside verbena

pluralroadside verbenas

Questions about roadside verbena

What does roadside verbena mean?
Roadside verbena means purpletop vervain, Verbena bonariensis.
What part of speech is roadside verbena?
Roadside verbena is a noun.
What is the plural of roadside verbena?
The plural of roadside verbena is roadside verbenas.

Words near roadside verbena in the dictionary

  1. roadside hawks
  2. roadside Romeo
  3. roadside Romeos
  4. roadside thistle
  5. roadside thistles
  6. roadside verbena
  7. roadside verbenas
  8. roadsider
  9. roadsiders
  10. roadsides
  11. roadsign

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