HERBAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does herbage mean? 

• HERBAGE (noun)
  The noun HERBAGE has 1 sense:

1. succulent herbaceous vegetation of pasture land

  Familiarity information: HERBAGE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HERBAGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Succulent herbaceous vegetation of pasture land

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

herbage; pasturage

Hypernyms ("herbage" is a kind of...):

herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)

 Context examples 

For this purpose I will preserve my life; to execute this dear revenge will I again behold the sun and tread the green herbage of earth, which otherwise should vanish from my eyes for ever.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

All this I shall some day write at fuller length, and amidst these more stirring days I would tenderly sketch in these lovely summer evenings, when with the deep blue sky above us we lay in good comradeship among the long grasses by the wood and marveled at the strange fowl that swept over us and the quaint new creatures which crept from their burrows to watch us, while above us the boughs of the bushes were heavy with luscious fruit, and below us strange and lovely flowers peeped at us from among the herbage; or those long moonlit nights when we lay out upon the shimmering surface of the great lake and watched with wonder and awe the huge circles rippling out from the sudden splash of some fantastic monster; or the greenish gleam, far down in the deep water, of some strange creature upon the confines of darkness.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In the meanwhile also the black ground was covered with herbage, and the green banks interspersed with innumerable flowers, sweet to the scent and the eyes, stars of pale radiance among the moonlight woods; the sun became warmer, the nights clear and balmy; and my nocturnal rambles were an extreme pleasure to me, although they were considerably shortened by the late setting and early rising of the sun, for I never ventured abroad during daylight, fearful of meeting with the same treatment I had formerly endured in the first village which I entered.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)