verbena
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- noun
- /vərˈbiːnə/
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verbena
- In the summer, the garden was filled with colorful spikes of verbena, attracting bees and butterflies.
- fresh lemon verbena
- Brazilian verbena
- red verbena
I'm going to take this shade Warm Verbena, verbena, warm verbena.
- I'm going to take this shade Warm Verbena, verbena, warm verbena.
- There are there's a one like maybe a lime green Zinnia and pink hydrangeas hosta in there more verbena.
Examples
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He walked around to the side of the house, where petunias and verbena encircled a sundial, and trotted to the backyard.
Fiction book (1999) -
The tea is verbena, very nice verbena, at that.
Fiction book (1993) -
A rose red verbena when I was eight years old.
Academic text (2007) -
The tea is verbena, very nice verbena, at that.
Fiction book (1993) -
Willa-Mae was partial to lemon verbena, anyway.
Fiction book (1992) -
- Lemon verbena.
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Lemon verbena.
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Not a traditional pumpkin beer, the amber ale eschewed spices for more esoteric ingredients like lemon verbena, fenugreek, and birch bark, which provided a distinct woody character.
Blog text (8) -
The air had never seemed as full of the pungent scents of the Cherokee roses and wild violets, as well as the faint fragrance of the lemon verbena sachet that came from Mamma's silk dress.
Fiction book (1993) -
The creatures of the swamp watch as the predator passes, as the scent of fresh blood mingles with the rank, metallic aroma of the bayou and the sweet perfume of wild honeysuckle, jasmine, and verbena.
Fiction book (1993)
Synonyms
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A garden plant with bright, spike-shaped flowers often used in herbal medicine
Compounds
A low plant with groups of pink or white flowers that grows on sandy coasts
A low plant with clusters of deep pink or white flowers that grows on sandy areas near the sea
- US
A small plant with groups of bright flowers that grows in sandy areas of western North America and Mexico
A plant that has sweet-smelling flowers and grows in sandy places like deserts
- Specialized
A group of tropical and subtropical plants like herbs, shrubs, and trees mostly from the Americas
A plant on sand dunes with round clusters of yellow, trumpet-shaped flowers
How Colorful
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word verbena comes from an old Latin word meaning 'sacred branches' that people used in ceremonies. So think of verbena as a plant people once tied into small bunches for rituals, which helps you remember it as the bright garden flower with many small blooms.