yerba
yerba noun: ilex paraguariensis, a species of holly native to southern South America; or the dried leaves and twigs of this plant, used to make the caffeine-rich beverage maté.
Noun
yerba (usually uncountable, plural yerbas)
- Ilex paraguariensis, a species of holly native to southern South America; or the dried leaves and twigs of this plant, used to make the caffeine-rich beverage maté.
- The storehouses at Talcahuano had been burst open, and great bags of cotton, yerba, and other valuable merchandise were scattered on the shore.1839, Charles Darwin, The Voyage of the Beagle
- This was the place at which the leaves and small sprigs of the yerba tree, when brought from the woods, were first scorched--fire being set to the logs of wood within it.1854, P. L. Simmonds, The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom
yerba meaning in Tamil
yerba in Tamil
- தோழர்
Forms of yerba
| plural | yerbas |
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Origin of yerba
From Spanish yerba. Doublet of herb.
Phrases with yerba
Questions about yerba
- What does yerba mean?
- Yerba means ilex paraguariensis, a species of holly native to southern South America; or the dried leaves and twigs of this plant, used to make the caffeine-rich beverage maté.
- What is yerba in Tamil?
- Yerba in Tamil is தோழர். See Yerba meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is yerba?
- Yerba is a noun.
- What is the plural of yerba?
- The plural of yerba is yerbas.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: yerba (page history and authors); yerba (Tamil 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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