yerba

From yerba mate.

yerba (usually uncountable, plural yerbas)

1. Ilex paraguariensis, a species of holly native to southern South America; or the dried leaves and twigs of this plant, used to make the caffeine-rich beverage mate.
   • 1839, Charles Darwin, The Voyage of the Beagle‎:

     The storehouses at Talcahuano had been burst open, and great bags of cotton, yerba, and other valuable merchandise were scattered on the shore.

   • 1854, P. L. Simmonds, The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom‎:

     This was the place at which the leaves and small sprigs of the yerba tree, when brought from the woods, were first scorched--fire being set to the logs of wood within it.

   • 1910, Various, Argentina From A British Point Of View‎:

     His preparations for breakfast are simple, and he is ready to start out after half an hour spent in imbibing a few mates full of yerba infusion.

• Yerba mate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Ilex paraguariensis on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

• Bayer, Earby, Yebra, barye, beray, by ear

yerba f

1. grass

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002), “yerba”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

From Latin herba.

yerba f (plural yerbes)

1. grass

• gièrba

From Latin herba.

yerba f

1. grass

From Spanish yerba and hierba.

yerba

1. grass

From Latin herba, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreH₁- (“to grow, become green”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɟ͡ʝerba/, [ˈɟ͡ʝerβa]

yerba f (plural yerbas)

1. yerba (Ilex paraguaiensis)
2. Alternative form of hierba
   • 1605, Miguel de Cervantes, El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha, Primera parte, Capítulo XX

     No es posible, señor mío, sino que estas yerbas dan testimonio de que por aquí cerca debe de estar alguna fuente o arroyo que estas yerbas humedece;

     It cannot be, my lord, but that this grass gives proof that there must be nearby some spring or brook to give it moisture;

• yerba buena
• yerba dulce
• yerba mate
• enyerbar
• yerboso