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verbena

ver·bena

UK/vɜːˈbiːnə/ US/vɚˈbinə/ fairly common

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any of numerous tropical or subtropical American plants of the genus Verbena grown for their showy spikes of variously colored flowers

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Borrowed from Latin verbēna (“leaves or twigs of olive, myrtle, laurel, or other sacred plants employed in religious ceremonies”), from Proto-Indo-European *werbʰ-. Doublet of vervain, via French.

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