herbage

Example Sentences

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The climate is healthy and temperate, and produces good herbage.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2019

But for those dedicated to the roughage life, Slatesters have recommendations about which sorts of herbage salad-lovers should get to know while they are remaining wary of romaine.

From Slate • May 1, 2018

It turns out the wolves helped repair riverine woodlands not so much by killing deer as by terrifying them, and thus keeping them from lingering lazily riverside, browsing down their favorite herbage.

From Scientific American • Aug. 16, 2013

He also thinned out the herbage in Pynacker's immediate foreground.

From The Guardian • Apr. 25, 2010

The herbage of an acre, then, would give fifteen pounds of Merino wool, twelve of Leicester, and but nine and three-fifths of South-Down—estimating the latter as high as four pounds to the fleece.

From Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. by Jennings, Robert