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herbaceous
adjective her·ba·ceous \ˌ(h)ər-ˈbā-shəs\
: relating to herbs
: relating to a type of plant that has a soft stem
Full Definition of HERBACEOUS
1
a : of, relating to, or having the characteristics of an herb b of a stem : having little or no woody tissue and persisting usually for a single growing season
2
: having the texture, color, or appearance of a leaf
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First Known Use of HERBACEOUS
1640
Rhymes with HERBACEOUS
audacious, bodacious, capacious, cetaceous, crustaceous, curvaceous, drupaceous, edacious, fallacious, flirtatious, fugacious, hellacious, loquacious, mendacious, micaceous, pomaceous, predaceous, pugnacious, rapacious, rosaceous, sagacious, salacious, sebaceous, sequacious, setaceous, tenacious, testaceous, tufaceous, ungracious, veracious, vinaceous, voracious
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