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Webster 1913 Edition
Verbena
Ver-be′na
,Noun.
[L. See
Vervain
.] (Bot.)
A genus of herbaceous plants of which several species are extensively cultivated for the great beauty of their flowers; vervain.
☞ Verbena, or vervain, was used by the Greeks, the Romans, and the Druids, in their sacred rites.
Brewer.
Essence of verbena
, Oil of verbena
a perfume prepared from the lemon verbena; also, a similar perfume properly called
– grass oil
. See Grass oil
, under Grass
. Lemon verbena
, or Sweet verbena
a shrubby verbenaceous plant (
Lippia citriodora
), with narrow leaves which exhale a pleasant, lemonlike fragrance when crushed.