forb
/fɔːb
/noun Botany
A herbaceous flowering plant other than a grass.Species were classified according to their growth form; forbs include all herbaceous dicotyledonous species (including Fabaceae)....
- They also eat leaves, shoots, roots, tubers, and seeds of most grasses and forbs, or broadleafed flowering plants.
- All of the foraging studies were limited to two classes of vegetation, grass and forbs.
Origin
1920s: from Greek phorbē 'fodder', from phorbein 'to feed'.
- ostreophagist
- ostrich
- ostrich dinosaur
- ostrich-egg cup
- ostrich farm
- ostrich farmer
- ostrich farming
- ostrich feather
- ostrich fern
- ostrichism
- ostrich meat
- ostrich plume
- ostrich-plumed
- ostrobogulosity
- ostrobogulous
- ostrog
- Ostrogoth
- Ostrogothic
- Ostwald dilution law
- Ostwald, Friedrich Wilhelm
- Ostwald pycnometer
- Ostwald ripening
- Ostwald's dilution law
- Ostwald's pycnometer
- Ostwald's viscometer