Noun: herbage
| Singular | herbage |
| Plural | herbages |
Sample Sentences
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I threw myself upon my face, and clung to the scant herbage in an excess of nervous agitation. [1841, Edgar Allan Poe, A Descent into the Maelström:]
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The dank breath of herbage, sodden with rain, came to her; the mists were barely visible, hovering above the dark ravines. [1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska, published 2005, page 97:]
Nouns inflected like herbage
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English herbage, from Old French erbage, from Early Medieval Latin herbāticum, from Latin herba (“grass”). By surface analysis, herb + -age. See: Middle English Nouns '
herbage', Latin Nouns '
herba'.