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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.
A herb native to Europe which is used as a medicinal plant.
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Examples for "verbena"
Examples for "verbena"
1
From a verbena hard by came the liquid song of a blackcap.
2
You were picking a spray of lemon verbena to take to church.
3
The insidiously alluring perfume of sand verbena rose like altar incense around them.
4
She's back under the oak tree, I'm back in the verbena.
5
The air smelled sickly sweet from lemon verbena that simmered on Binnesman's hearth.
Usage of vervain in English
1
The faint odor of vervain filled his nostrils, and he breathed quickly.
2
There was still the delicate odor of vervain-her perfume-clingingto it.
3
Only the vervain, normally tallest of the summer herbs, has been holding back.
4
As she left the private assembly that night I caught the odor of vervain.
5
Place the hand in a hot oven that is fired with vervain and fir.
6
There are cowslips, too, and blue vervain, and white violets.
7
Pliny writes that the Druids exhibited the herb vervain in the exercise of their rites.
8
On the plains there were fields of native carrots, now dry; also of vervain and burr.
9
An odor of vervain stole through the room.
10
As the vervain dries up in the smoke, so the tumour will also dry up and disappear.
11
It opens the small room Of herbs for medicine, of hellebore, Of vervain, monkshood, plantain, and self-heal.
12
On the king so commanding him he said, "I demand vervain of thee, O king."
13
With a movement almost unconscious he held the silken fabric close to his face and inhaled... vervain!
14
As he hung over her he drank in the faint perfume of vervain that arose from her dressing-gown.
15
He had drawn closer to the girl, and he brought a cloying odor of frangipani, bergamot and vervain.
16
Also the perfume it contains is precious, being blent with the herb vervain which is powerful against evil spirits.
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