verbena

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

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

   But it's such a lovely feeling now--like being in a very hot bath with lots of verbena bath-salts, and hardly able to move with limpness, but just ever so comfortable and happy.

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.

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