herb Robert

noun

, plural herbs Robert.

1. a wild geranium, Geranium robertianum, having fernlike, scented leaves and reddish-purple flowers.

herb Robert

noun

1. a low-growing N temperate geraniaceous plant, Geranium robertianum, with strongly scented divided leaves and small pink flowers

Word History and Origins

Origin of herb Robert¹

1250–1300; Middle English < Medieval Latin herba Robertī Robert's herb

Word History and Origins

Origin of herb Robert¹

C13: from Medieval Latin herba Roberti herb of Robert, probably named after St Robert, 11th-century French ecclesiastic

Example Sentences

The little geranium known as herb-robert is a neighbor of the corydalis, and, like it, stands the cold remarkably well.

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Herb Robert is exclusively a wood plant with us, but in England it strays quite out into the open fields and by the roadside.

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That third Herb Robert one is just the drawing that nobody but me (never mind grammar) could have made.

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