herbage

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: herb=age

CIDE DICTIONARY

herbage, n. [F. See Herb.].

•  Herbs collectively; green food beasts; grass; pasture.  Dryden.  [1913 Webster]
•  The liberty or right of pasture in the forest or in the grounds of another man.  Blount.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

herbage, n.
1 herbs collectively.
2 the succulent part of herbs, esp. as pasture.
3 Law the right of pasture on another person's land.

Etymology

ME f. OF erbage f. med.L herbaticum, herbagium right of pasture, f. L herba herb

ROGET THESAURUS

herbage

Vegetable

N vegetable, vegetable kingdom, flora, verdure, plant, tree, shrub, bush, creeper, herb, herbage, grass, annual, perennial, biennial, triennial, exotic, timber, forest, wood, woodlands, timberland, hurst, frith, holt, weald, park, chase, greenwood, brake, grove, copse, coppice, bocage, tope, clump of trees, thicket, spinet, spinney, underwood, brushwood, scrub, boscage, bosk, ceja, chaparal, motte, arboretum, bush, jungle, prairie, heath, heather, fern, bracken, furze, gorse, whin, grass, turf, pasture, pasturage, turbary, sedge, rush, weed, fungus, mushroom, toadstool, lichen, moss, conferva, mold, growth, alfalfa, alfilaria, banyan, blow, blowth, floret, petiole, pin grass, timothy, yam, yew, zinnia, foliage, branch, bough, ramage, stem, tigella, spray, leaf, flower, blossom, bine, flowering plant, timber tree, fruit tree, pulse, legume, vegetable, vegetal, vegetive, vegitous, herbaceous, herbal, botanic, sylvan, silvan, arborary, arboreous, arborescent, arborical, woody, grassy, verdant, verdurous, floral, mossy, lignous, ligneous, wooden, leguminous, vosky, cespitose, turf-like, turfy, endogenous, exogenous, green-robed senators of mighty woods, this is the forest primeval.