(n.) A genus of herbaceous plants of which several species are extensively cultivated for the great beauty of their flowers; vervain.
Example Sentences:
(1) US First Lady Michelle Obama, in London to promote the Let Girls Learn initiative, arrived with a gift box for the sovereign containing lemon verbena tea, a candle, two small pots of honey and a jar of honey butter from the White House kitchen garden.
(2) Sometimes you need to grab a bunch of parsley, a few sprigs of lemon thyme or a handful of verbena for a pot of tea when it's pouring with rain.
(3) His wife, Susan Olley, who was buying begonias, geraniums and verbenas for her beds, feared the time may come for the watering can.
(4) I squished many cabbage white caterpillars in return for some lemon verbena tea.
(5) Basil pesto, for instance, or lemon verbena ice cream or mint sauce.
(6) The most active herbs in promoting blood neutrophil phagocytosis were observed for Herba verbenae, Flos chrysanthemi, Flos lonicerae, Radix sophorae flavescentis, Herba houttuyniae, Radix isatidis, Herba patriniae, Berberini sulfatis at the lowest concentration and for Folium hibisci at the high concentration with the increased percentage of more than 40.0% in comparison with PBSS control.
(7) Gärtner, Nicardra physaloides violacea Bitter and Verbena officinalis L. are pretty well suitable to verify the PPV serving as locally reacting test plants.