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yerbas

yerbas is the plural of yerba.

Meaning of yerba

Noun

yerba (usually uncountable, plural yerbas)

  1. (usually) 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

Questions about yerbas

What is yerbas the plural of?
Yerbas is the plural of yerba.

Words near yerbas in the dictionary

  1. yerba santa
  2. yerba santas
  3. yerbal
  4. yerbales
  5. yerbals
  6. yerbas
  7. yerbs
  8. Yerby
  9. Yerbys
  10. yercum
  11. yerd

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Adapted from Wiktionary: yerbas (page history and authors); yerba (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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