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# herbage

«herbage» in Mova's school dictionary: **grass and green plants, especially the food that animals…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (no plural in common use)

### meaning for a pupil

Herbage is grass and green plants, especially the food that animals graze on. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/herbage/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in stories, herbage is the green grass that animals trample or eat, and in a fine spring it is lush

### examples

- The cows grazed on sweet herbage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/herbage/#x1)
- The elephants trampled the herbage flat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/herbage/#x2)
- After the rain, the herbage was thick and green. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/herbage/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «herbage» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/herbage/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.