verbena : Idioms & Phrases

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beach sand verbena

  • noun prostrate herb having heads of deep pink to white flowers; found in coastal dunes from British Columbia to Baja California
    beach sand verbena; Abronia umbellata.
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desert sand verbena

  • noun soft-haired sticky plant with heads of bright pink trumpet-shaped flowers; found in sandy desert soil; after ample rains may carpet miles of desert with pink from the southwestern United States to northern Mexico
    Abronia villosa.
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Essence of verbena, Oil of verbena

  • a perfume prepared from the lemon verbena; also, a similar perfume properly called grass oil. See Grass oil, under Grass.
Webster 1913

genus verbena

  • noun type genus of the Verbenaceae; genus of herbaceous perennials and subshrubs
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Lemon, ∨ Sweet, verbena

  • a shrubby verbenaceous plant (Lippia citriodora), with narrow leaves which exhale a pleasant, lemonlike fragrance when crushed.
Webster 1913

pink sand verbena

  • noun prostrate herb having heads of deep pink to white flowers; found in coastal dunes from British Columbia to Baja California
    beach sand verbena; Abronia umbellata.
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sand verbena

  • noun any of various plants of the genus Abronia of western North America and Mexico having flowers resembling verbena
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sweet sand verbena

  • noun taller than Abronia elliptica and having night-blooming flowers
    Abronia fragrans.
  • noun plant having heads of fragrant white trumpet-shaped flowers; grows in sandy arid regions
    snowball; Abronia elliptica.
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verbena family

  • noun family of New World tropical and subtropical herbs and shrubs and trees
    family Verbenaceae; vervain family; Verbenaceae.
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yellow sand verbena

  • noun plant having hemispherical heads of yellow trumpet-shaped flowers; found in coastal dunes from California to British Columbia
    Abronia latifolia.
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