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yarb

yarb noun: herb.

Noun

yarb (plural yarbs)

  1. (UK, archaic, dialectal) herb
    • The medicine is nat'ral yarbs, pure yarbs; yarbs must cure me.1857, Herman Melville, The Confidence-man: His Masquerade, page 165
    • He was then generally known by the soubriquet of Yarb, or Yarb Man, as he preferred to be hailed, for the reason that he always carried with him a collection of yarrow, tansy, snake root, squaw root, choice buds and barks […]1906, George Banghart Henry Swayze, Yarb and Cretine, page 60

Forms of yarb

pluralyarbs

Words that rhyme with yarb

Questions about yarb

What does yarb mean?
Yarb means herb.
What part of speech is yarb?
Yarb is a noun.
What is the plural of yarb?
The plural of yarb is yarbs.

Words near yarb in the dictionary

  1. Yaras
  2. Yaraslau
  3. yaravi
  4. yaravis
  5. yaray
  6. yarb
  7. Yarber
  8. Yarberry
  9. Yarberrys
  10. Yarbers
  11. yarble

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