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Definition: Rhamnus Californica
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
,
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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