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
The banana is a herbaceous plant, and after fruiting its top dies; but it annually sprouts up again fresh from the roots.
From Due South or Cuba Past and Present by Ballou, Maturin Murray
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
The banana is an herbaceous plant, without any woody matter: the trunk of each is formed of leaves placed one above the other.
From Adventures in the Philippine Islands by La Gironière, Paul P. de
We now reproached ourselves for having so negligently fastened them—for having tied them to a branch of the asiminier, whose soft succulent wood possesses scarcely the toughness of an ordinary herbaceous plant.
From The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West by Reid, Mayne
