forb
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- noun
- /fɔrb/
- Specialized
:
hierba
- The vegetation types were categorized as grasses, forbs, or bare ground (beige); shrubs (light green); chaparral or scrub oak (dark green); and woodland (black).
- grasses and forbs
- forbs and shrubs
- forbs and other plants
Examples
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The botanical flora (all forbs and woody plants) in the same 40 x 10 m area was exhaustively surveyed.
Academic text (2012) -
Forbs are broadleaf plants that don't have woody stems and include perennial plants such as arrowleaf balsamroot and tapertip hawksbeard.
Academic text (2003) -
We moved a few small forbs to places where we can appreciate them better.
Blog text (20) -
We studied CRP fields planted with warm-season grass/forb mixtures.
Academic text (2017) -
Because the drifts delay the delivery of SWI to the soil until well into the growing season, there is water available for shrubs and forbs that would otherwise be desiccated by a summer generally without precipitation.
Academic text (2016) -
The fall-grazed pastures had less sagebrush and more perennial forbs, while the spring-grazed pastures had less forb cover and increased grass and sagebrush.
Academic text (2003) -
The pastures contain mixtures of up to nine different species of cool-season grasses, legumes such as clover, and forbs like chicory.
Academic text (2004) -
Virtually all of the nutritional needs of Mongolia's herds are met by grazing on wild grasses and forbs or by browsing on shrubs.
Academic text (1999) -
To that end, Sanderson, Skinner, and Goslee have established eight 2.5-acre pastures that contain different combinations of grasses, legumes, and forbs.
Academic text (2004) -
In spring, the garden was filled with colorful forbs that attracted many pollinators.
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Etymology
The word forb is a short name used by botanists and ecologists for a 'flowering plant that is not a grass'. A helpful way to remember it is to think of forb like flower — these are the colorful plants in meadows that provide nectar, not the green blades of grass.