yerba

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Related to yerbas: yerba mate

yerba

(ˈjɛəbə; ˈjɜːbə) or

yerba maté

1. (Plants) another name for maté

2. (Cookery) another name for maté

[from Spanish yerba maté herb maté]

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There's the Alameda & Contra Costa Land Syndicate, the Consolidated Street Railways, the Yerba Buena Ferry Company, the United Water Company, the Piedmont Realty Company, the Fairview and Portola Hotel Company, and half a dozen more that I've got to refer to a notebook to remember.

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The storehouses at Talcahuano had been burst open, and great bags of cotton, yerba, and other valuable merchandise were scattered on the shore.

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The most extensive series in this exhibition, composed of seven pieces, is called "Yerbas dulces" (Sweet herbs), 2001.