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Meanings of vervain in English

Catalan
marialluïsa
Spanish
verbena

Any of numerous tropical or subtropical American plants of the genus Verbena grown for their showy spikes of variously colored flowers.

marialluïsa

A herb native to Europe which is used as a medicinal plant.

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Examples for "common verbena"
Examples for "common verbena"
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Though generally barren, the desert supports growths of many kinds; wild hyssop, thorns, the succulent ice-plant, and a great variety of other shrubs.
Peeps at Many Lands: Egypt
Usage of vervain in English
1
The faint odor of vervain filled his nostrils, and he breathed quickly.
The Grey Cloak
2
There was still the delicate odor of vervain-her perfume-clingingto it.
The Grey Cloak
3
Only the vervain, normally tallest of the summer herbs, has been holding back.
The new yorker
4
As she left the private assembly that night I caught the odor of vervain.
The Grey Cloak
5
Place the hand in a hot oven that is fired with vervain and fir.
Book of shadows
6
There are cowslips, too, and blue vervain, and white violets.
How To Write Special Feature Articles / A Handbook for Reporters...
7
Pliny writes that the Druids exhibited the herb vervain in the exercise of their rites.
The Mysteries of All Nations / Rise and Progress of Superstition...
8
On the plains there were fields of native carrots, now dry; also of vervain and burr.
Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia / From Moreton Ba...
9
An odor of vervain stole through the room.
A Love Episode
10
As the vervain dries up in the smoke, so the tumour will also dry up and disappear.
The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion
11
It opens the small room Of herbs for medicine, of hellebore, Of vervain, monkshood, plantain, and self-heal.
The Countess Cathleen
12
On the king so commanding him he said, "I demand vervain of thee, O king."
Roman History, Books I-III
13
With a movement almost unconscious he held the silken fabric close to his face and inhaled... vervain!
The Grey Cloak
14
As he hung over her he drank in the faint perfume of vervain that arose from her dressing-gown.
A Love Episode
15
He had drawn closer to the girl, and he brought a cloying odor of frangipani, bergamot and vervain.
The Certain Hour (Dizain des Poëtes)
16
Also the perfume it contains is precious, being blent with the herb vervain which is powerful against evil spirits.
The Thing from the Lake
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Translations for vervain
Spanish
verbena
Vervain through the time