herbaceous plant
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If the wasps had been nectaring on flowers like sumac or goldenrod, their most-visited woody and herbaceous plant choices, they would have paid us no mind, Holm is quick to point out.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 19, 2022
“There again!” said he, pointing to a gigantic herbaceous plant, “rhubarb, you see!”
From The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains by Reid, Mayne
Banana, ba-n�′na, n. a gigantic herbaceous plant, remarkable for its nutritious fruit.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
It is a hardy herbaceous plant, which attains a height of 2 or 3 ft.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various
An herbaceous plant of the genus Polygonum, section Bistorta; snakeweed; adderwort.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah
