What does herbaceous mean?
Herbaceous means (botany) Not woody, lacking lignified tissues..
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/hə(ɹ)ˈbeɪ.ʃəs/ · adjective
(botany) Not woody, lacking lignified tissues..
[…] and it contains a very good selection of shrubs and herbaceous plants, which, having good soil and plentiful drenchings of water from a garden-engine all the summer, thrive to admiration.
Iversen holds that these changes indicate the arrival of farmers, the phase of Landnam or land occupation, that the charcoal comes from clearance fires; that herbaceous pollen suggests the opening-up of the land; cereals, fields; the plantains, weeds; and birch and hazel, regeneration of the forests after the exhaustion of the plot.
The hippopotamus is an herbaceous animal.
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Herbaceous means (botany) Not woody, lacking lignified tissues..
Common synonyms include nonwoody.
Possible antonyms include woody.
[…] and it contains a very good selection of shrubs and herbaceous plants, which, having good soil and plentiful drenchings of water from a garden-engine all the summer, thrive to admiration.
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