Verbena Definition
vər-bēnə
noun
Any of a genus (Verbena) of plants of the verbena family, with spikes or clusters of showy red, white, or purplish flowers, widely grown for ornament.
Webster's New World
Any of several similar plants, such as the lemon verbena.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
adjective
Designating a family (Verbenaceae, order Lamiales) of American, mostly tropical, dicotyledonous plants, shrubs, and trees, including vervain, lantana, and teak.
Webster's New World
pronoun
A taxonomic genus within the family Verbenaceae "” the vervains.
Wiktionary
Other Word Forms of Verbena
Noun
Singular:
verbena
Plural:
verbenasOrigin of Verbena
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From Latin verbena (“leaves or twigs of olive, myrtle, laurel, or other sacred plants employed in religious ceremonies"), from Proto-Indo-European *werbh (see also Lithuanian virbas (“twig, branch, scion, rod")), from Proto-Indo-European *werb- (“to turn, bend"). Cognate with Middle Dutch warp, Middle Low German warp, German Warf, Danish varp, Swedish varp.
From Wiktionary
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Latin verbēna sacred foliage wer-2 in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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