herbage

Meaning

Noun

• Herbs collectively.
• Herbaceous plant growth, especially grass.
• The fleshy, often edible, parts of plants.
• The natural pasture of a land, considered as distinct from the land itself; hence, right of pasture (on another man's land).

Origin

• From Middle English herbage, erbage, from Middle French herbage and Old French erbage, from Medieval Latin herbaticum, from Latin herba ("grass"); alternatively, herb + -age.