herbaceous plant

Questions about herbaceous plant

What does herbaceous plant mean?

herbaceous plant means "a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests".

What is another word for herbaceous plant?

Close synonyms include herb. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is herbaceous plant a common word?

herbaceous plant is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.