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Verbena

//vɚˈbinə// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Verbena, a genus of herbaceous plants of which several species are extensively cultivated for the great beauty of their flowers; vervain. countable, uncountable

    "Linda pulled a piece of verbena and crumpled it, and held her hands to her mother. -"

  2. 2
    any of numerous tropical or subtropical American plants of the genus Verbena grown for their showy spikes of variously colored flowers wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin verbēna (“leaves or twigs of olive, myrtle, laurel, or other sacred plants employed in religious ceremonies”), from Proto-Indo-European *werbʰ-. Doublet of vervain, via French.

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