yerba

The Paraguay tea, or mate. See mate. Abbreviated from yerba de mate or yerba-mate.

An herb; a plant.

A kind of buckthorn (Rhamnus Californica).

A plant (Anemopsis Californica) with a pungent, aromatic rootstock, used medicinally by the Mexicans and the Indians.

A low California undershrub (Frankenia grandifolia).

Ilex paraguaiensis, a species of holly native to southern South America; or the dried leaves and twigs of this plant