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verbena

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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  • General-American: /vɚˈbinə/
  • Received-Pronunciation: /vɜːˈbiːnə/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -iːnə
  • CMU ARPABET: V ER0 B IY1 N AH0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

Verbena, a genus of herbaceous plants of which several species are extensively cultivated for the great beauty of their flowers; vervain.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

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

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: vervain

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: flower

History

Etymology

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.

Across languages

Translations

35 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Aromanian: yirghinã — a genus of herbaceous plants
  • Asturian: verbena — a genus of herbaceous plants
  • Bulgarian: върбинка (vǎrbinka) — a genus of herbaceous plants
  • Catalan: berbena — a genus of herbaceous plants
  • Czech: sporýš — a genus of herbaceous plants
  • Czech: verbena — a genus of herbaceous plants
  • Dutch: ijzerhard — a genus of herbaceous plants
  • Dutch: ijzerkruid — a genus of herbaceous plants
  • Esperanto: verbeno — a genus of herbaceous plants
  • Finnish: verbena — a genus of herbaceous plants
  • Finnish: rautayrtti — a genus of herbaceous plants
  • French: verveine — a genus of herbaceous plants
  • Friulian: vermene — a genus of herbaceous plants
  • Galician: verxebán — a genus of herbaceous plants
  • Galician: orxaván — a genus of herbaceous plants
  • German: Eisenkraut — a genus of herbaceous plants
  • German: Verbene — a genus of herbaceous plants
  • Greek: λουίζα (louíza) — a genus of herbaceous plants
  • Hungarian: verbéna — a genus of herbaceous plants
  • Hungarian: vasfű — a genus of herbaceous plants
  • Italian: verbena — a genus of herbaceous plants
  • Japanese: バーベナ — a genus of herbaceous plants
  • Latin: lustrago — a genus of herbaceous plants
  • Latin: verbenaca — a genus of herbaceous plants
  • Norman: vèrveine — a genus of herbaceous plants
  • Occitan: verbena — a genus of herbaceous plants
  • Polish: werbena — a genus of herbaceous plants
  • Portuguese: verbena — a genus of herbaceous plants
  • Romanian: verbină — a genus of herbaceous plants
  • Russian: вербе́на (verbéna) — a genus of herbaceous plants
  • Sicilian: virvina — a genus of herbaceous plants
  • Sicilian: berbena — a genus of herbaceous plants
  • Sicilian: birbina — a genus of herbaceous plants
  • Spanish: verbena — a genus of herbaceous plants
  • Turkish: mine çiçeğigiller — a genus of herbaceous plants