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- Ancient Greek · borrowed fromφορβή“food”
- English todayforb
Borrowed from Ancient Greek φορβή (phorbḗ, “food”), from φέρβω (phérbō, “to feed”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Today it means: Any nonwoody flowering plant that is not a graminoid (a grass, sedge, or rush). Full definition →
Ancient Greek φορβή