Yerba

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Yerba \Yer"ba\, n. [Sp.] (Bot.)
     An herb; a plant.
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     Note: This word is much used in compound names of plants in
           Spanish; as, yerba buena [Sp., a good herb], a name


           applied in Spain to several kinds of mint ({Mentha
           sativa}, {Mentha viridis}, etc.), but in California
           universally applied to a common, sweet-scented labiate
           plant ({Micromeria Douglasii}).
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     {Yerba dol osa}. [Sp., herb of the she-bear.] A kind of
        buckthorn ({Rhamnus Californica}).
  
     {Yerba mansa}. [Sp., a mild herb, soft herb.] A plant
        ({Anemopsis Californica}) with a pungent, aromatic
        rootstock, used medicinally by the Mexicans and the
        Indians.
  
     {Yerba reuma}. [Cf. Sp. reuma rheum, rheumatism.] A low
        California undershrub ({Frankenia grandifolia}).
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