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How to pronounce vervain in English?

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Synonyms verbena
Type of flower

Examples of vervain

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Fellow troopers include goldenrod and blazing star, Indian grass and bluestem, vervain and violets.
From the dailyherald.com
Mauve steeples of woody-stemmed vervain point skywards, keeping company with ground-hugging stonecrop.
From the guardian.co.uk
Women's Libido contains a blend of herbs including maca, damiana, blue vervain and the provocatively named horny goat weed.
From the orlandosentinel.com
Vervain and Wiles posit that this small size discourages the idea that the mask functioned as a megaphone, as originally presented in the 1960s.
From the en.wikipedia.org
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  • Verbena: any of numerous tropical or subtropical American plants of the genus Verbena grown for their showy spikes of variously colored flowers
  • Verbena (verbenas or vervains) is a genus in the family Verbenaceae. It contains about 250 species of annual and perennial herbaceous or semi-woody flowering plants. ...
  • This is a list of characters in Watership Down, a 1972 novel by Richard Adams. The majority also appear in the 1978 feature film adaptation and/or 1996 follow-up collection of short stories.
  • A medicinal plant of the verbena family, slightly bitter in taste. The name vervain is derived from the Celtic ferfaen, from fer (to drive away) and faen (a stone), as the plant was much used to soothe attacks of the bladder.
  • A sacred herb with which the altars of Jupiter were sprinkled. Water containing vervain was also sprinkled in houses to cast out evil spirits. Among the druids particularly it was employed in connection with many forms of superstition. They gathered it at day-break, before the sun had risen. ...
  • Bitter medicinal plant.
  • The head of the Owslafa (Council police) in Efrafa. He is a large and bullying rabbit, more used to dealing with prisoners than with active combatants, and dislikes his peer Campion. ...