Herbaceous
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /hə(ɹ)ˈbeɪ.ʃəs/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Herbaceous is an adjective meaning (botany) Not woody, lacking lignified tissues.
Meaning
(botany) Not woody, lacking lignified tissues.
More Meanings
- (wine) Not woody in flavor.
- (dated) Feeding on herbs and soft plants.
Example Sentences
The hippopotamus is an herbaceous animal.
[…] 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.
Antonyms for herbaceous
Common opposites include woody.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include herbal, herb, daisy, grass, grassland, arable.
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