Yer·ba n. Bot. An herb; a plant.
Note: ☞ This word is much used in compound names of plants in Spanish; as, yerba buena , 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).
Yerba dol osa.
Yerba mansa.
Yerba reuma.
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Anemopsis californica
n : stoloniferous herb of southwestern United States and Mexico
having a pungent rootstock and small spicate flowers with
white bracts suggesting an anemone [syn: yerba mansa]