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Definition of herbage in English: herbagenoun ˈhəːbɪdʒˈ(h)ərbɪdʒ mass noun1Herbaceous vegetation. 草本植物群 after rain, tall herbage invariably collapses on to the paths Example sentencesExamples - He slowly followed the road away from the town, past the olives, under which purple anemones were drooping in the chill of dawn, and rich-green herbage was pressing thick.
- They herded the beasts on to roadside verges and made the most of whatever herbage grew there.
- The course was in splendid order, the track having been ploughed and harrowed since last meeting, and when the herbage on it has had time to set racing experts pronounce there will not be a finer or safer course in Ireland.
- Sedge warblers advertise their presence by a chattering and varied song, but are often invisible due to the dense herbage they haunt.
- In the steady retirement climate, almost any herbage can be trained up a wall to obscure a building.
- This side of the city was green with small trees, herbage, and bushes.
- The density of building in the old city, too, precluded herbage.
- The date of the garden is established by documentary records, which describe gardens, fruit and herbage at the castle by the 1330s.
- The fledgling crouched in the center of the strange clearing, on the scruffy herbage that grew amid the dirt and stones.
- The strips of green herbage and forest-land, which have here and there escaped the burning lavas, serve, by contrast, to heighten the desolation of the scene.
- You can use almost any herbage and leaves in it; wet and turn with a fork regularly.
- Five of the 14 orders deal with levies that were voted upon themselves by growers of commodities such as passion fruit, wheat grain, milk solids, satsuma mandarins, and herbage seeds.
- Blinman had become ‘the garden of the north’ with valleys and hills covered with splendid herbage.
- While the fish sizzled, Wolf and Adriana gathered weeds to make beds for themselves and Lucius, and spread their cloaks over the tangled herbage.
- He manages to arrest his fall by grabbing ‘the last outlying knot of starved herbage ere the rock appeared in all its bareness’.
- That herbage was found in most deserts in this part of the galaxy, and was known to some people as the Esirinus cactus.
- In the meantime there is the best germination of winter herbage that I have seen for the last 20 years.
Synonyms shrubbery, vegetation, greenery, ground cover, underwood, copsewood, brushwood, brush, scrub, underscrub, cover, covert, thicket, copse, coppice, wood, jungle - 1.1 The succulent part of herbaceous vegetation, used as pasture.
(用作牧草的)草本植物肉质鲜嫩部分 the herbage of this area produces the milk necessary to make a fine cheese Example sentencesExamples - Standing herbage mass in the pastures was estimated by measuring the forage height with a rising-plate meter in 25 places along evenly spaced, predetermined paced transects.
- The more pronounced flavour comes from this maturity and from grazing the wild herbage of the open fells.
- Near Wauchop Creek they lost 900 sheep who had eaten poisonous herbage.
- Below-normal precipitation in 2002 and the resulting shift in available water and herbage has created some concern among conservationists for migrators such as Sandhill cranes.
- Therefore, based on forage availability, the performance of heifers grazing pastures on the corn treatment would not have been limited because of standing herbage mass.
- The digestive system of grass and herbage-eating animals includes a large organ next to the secum, the vermiform appendix, in which cellulose is digested.
- At the sites used in the present experiment, herbage allowance was in excess of 2000 kg/ha.
- Rains fell in March 1936 and Ted thought it safe to travel as there would be herbage for his camels.
- Initial and final herbage mass did not differ among grass species.
- Modern pastures are deficient in many varieties of essential herbage.
- Last summer, under a cooperative research and development agreement with industry, a group of machines was used in the first fieldside demonstration of wet fractionation of soybean herbage.
- Evolution of large size was a prerequisite for the exploitation of leaves because of the need for a longer residence time in the gut for bacterial fermentation to obtain sufficient nutrients from foliage and herbage.
- Since it's eating natural herbage and is well exercised, it just tastes better.
- Differences between the cultivars in leaf number, leaf area and petiole length were insignificant and this was reflected in the similar herbage yields measured at the time of defoliation.
- As previously discussed, consumption in April was primarily of vegetative, high moisture herbage, and in May and June, consumed material was of greater maturity and less moisture.
- White clover is an important herbage legume in low input sustainable pastures in temperate regions of the world.
- The herbage was allowed to wilt for approximately 48 hours and was then chopped with a forage harvester and conserved.
- Crude protein levels range from 15 to 25 percent in the herbage and 8 to 15 percent in the roots, depending on nitrogen fertilization rate and weather conditions.
- Early spring emergence and rapid growth, high palatability and herbage production make the grasslands ideal for grazing and forage production.
Synonyms fodder, feed, food, foodstuff, pasturage - 1.2historical The right of pasture on another person's land.
〈旧〉(在别人土地上的)放牧权 the warden of Windsor Forest was granted as part of his farm the herbage of the whole forest Example sentencesExamples - Henry Cornish for farm of a parcel of herbage at the rear of St. John's.
- There is evidence, no doubt, in this case of a long-continued practice of letting herbage on the road for the pasturage, not of sheep exclusively, but also of a limited number of horses and cattle.
- The Corporation made a most liberal offer, perhaps thought too generous, seeing that the real ownership of the soil of the Strays rested with them, and the Freemen's rights only extended to the herbage or pasturage.
OriginLate Middle English: from Old French erbage, based on Latin herba 'herb, grass, crops'. Definition of herbage in US English: herbagenounˈ(h)ərbijˈ(h)ərbɪdʒ 1Herbaceous vegetation. 草本植物群 after rain, tall herbage invariably collapses onto the paths Example sentencesExamples - In the meantime there is the best germination of winter herbage that I have seen for the last 20 years.
- This side of the city was green with small trees, herbage, and bushes.
- They herded the beasts on to roadside verges and made the most of whatever herbage grew there.
- Five of the 14 orders deal with levies that were voted upon themselves by growers of commodities such as passion fruit, wheat grain, milk solids, satsuma mandarins, and herbage seeds.
- The date of the garden is established by documentary records, which describe gardens, fruit and herbage at the castle by the 1330s.
- He manages to arrest his fall by grabbing ‘the last outlying knot of starved herbage ere the rock appeared in all its bareness’.
- The density of building in the old city, too, precluded herbage.
- In the steady retirement climate, almost any herbage can be trained up a wall to obscure a building.
- The fledgling crouched in the center of the strange clearing, on the scruffy herbage that grew amid the dirt and stones.
- Sedge warblers advertise their presence by a chattering and varied song, but are often invisible due to the dense herbage they haunt.
- While the fish sizzled, Wolf and Adriana gathered weeds to make beds for themselves and Lucius, and spread their cloaks over the tangled herbage.
- Blinman had become ‘the garden of the north’ with valleys and hills covered with splendid herbage.
- The course was in splendid order, the track having been ploughed and harrowed since last meeting, and when the herbage on it has had time to set racing experts pronounce there will not be a finer or safer course in Ireland.
- He slowly followed the road away from the town, past the olives, under which purple anemones were drooping in the chill of dawn, and rich-green herbage was pressing thick.
- The strips of green herbage and forest-land, which have here and there escaped the burning lavas, serve, by contrast, to heighten the desolation of the scene.
- You can use almost any herbage and leaves in it; wet and turn with a fork regularly.
- That herbage was found in most deserts in this part of the galaxy, and was known to some people as the Esirinus cactus.
Synonyms shrubbery, vegetation, greenery, ground cover, underwood, copsewood, brushwood, brush, scrub, underscrub, cover, covert, thicket, copse, coppice, wood, jungle - 1.1 The succulent part of herbaceous vegetation, used as pasture.
(用作牧草的)草本植物肉质鲜嫩部分 the herbage of this area produces the milk necessary to make a fine cheese Example sentencesExamples - Differences between the cultivars in leaf number, leaf area and petiole length were insignificant and this was reflected in the similar herbage yields measured at the time of defoliation.
- Rains fell in March 1936 and Ted thought it safe to travel as there would be herbage for his camels.
- Early spring emergence and rapid growth, high palatability and herbage production make the grasslands ideal for grazing and forage production.
- At the sites used in the present experiment, herbage allowance was in excess of 2000 kg/ha.
- Crude protein levels range from 15 to 25 percent in the herbage and 8 to 15 percent in the roots, depending on nitrogen fertilization rate and weather conditions.
- Since it's eating natural herbage and is well exercised, it just tastes better.
- The digestive system of grass and herbage-eating animals includes a large organ next to the secum, the vermiform appendix, in which cellulose is digested.
- Near Wauchop Creek they lost 900 sheep who had eaten poisonous herbage.
- As previously discussed, consumption in April was primarily of vegetative, high moisture herbage, and in May and June, consumed material was of greater maturity and less moisture.
- Last summer, under a cooperative research and development agreement with industry, a group of machines was used in the first fieldside demonstration of wet fractionation of soybean herbage.
- Standing herbage mass in the pastures was estimated by measuring the forage height with a rising-plate meter in 25 places along evenly spaced, predetermined paced transects.
- Modern pastures are deficient in many varieties of essential herbage.
- Therefore, based on forage availability, the performance of heifers grazing pastures on the corn treatment would not have been limited because of standing herbage mass.
- The more pronounced flavour comes from this maturity and from grazing the wild herbage of the open fells.
- The herbage was allowed to wilt for approximately 48 hours and was then chopped with a forage harvester and conserved.
- White clover is an important herbage legume in low input sustainable pastures in temperate regions of the world.
- Initial and final herbage mass did not differ among grass species.
- Below-normal precipitation in 2002 and the resulting shift in available water and herbage has created some concern among conservationists for migrators such as Sandhill cranes.
- Evolution of large size was a prerequisite for the exploitation of leaves because of the need for a longer residence time in the gut for bacterial fermentation to obtain sufficient nutrients from foliage and herbage.
Synonyms fodder, feed, food, foodstuff, pasturage - 1.2historical The right of pasture on another person's land.
〈旧〉(在别人土地上的)放牧权 the warden of Windsor Forest was granted as part of his farm the herbage of the whole forest Example sentencesExamples - There is evidence, no doubt, in this case of a long-continued practice of letting herbage on the road for the pasturage, not of sheep exclusively, but also of a limited number of horses and cattle.
- The Corporation made a most liberal offer, perhaps thought too generous, seeing that the real ownership of the soil of the Strays rested with them, and the Freemen's rights only extended to the herbage or pasturage.
- Henry Cornish for farm of a parcel of herbage at the rear of St. John's.
OriginLate Middle English: from Old French erbage, based on Latin herba ‘herb, grass, crops’. |