A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

herbidus,-a,-um (adj.A): full of or rich in herbs, grass-green; 'covered with grass or other vegetation, grassy; full of weeds;' having a grassy quality; like that of grass; like grass, grassy, grass-colored; “covered with grass or other vegetation, grassy; full of weeds; having a grassy quality; like that of grass” (Glare); which might be typical of urban lawns [> L. herba,-ae (s.f.I), an herb, herbage, green stalks or blades (Lewis & Short)] ;

- circa Romam in humidis herbidis legi (Brid.), I collected it around Rome in moist grassy places.

- in herbidis Orisava, in herbaceous places at Orizaba (Mexico).

- in herbidis [sc. locis] a Carolina ad Floridam (DeCandolle, in herbaceous [grassy] places from Carolina to Florida.

- campi herbidi, fields rich in herbs or grass.

- segetes herbida, grain fields full of weeds [or grass-green].

- insulae herbidae omnes harundine et junco, all the islands grass-covered with reed and rush.

- folium herbidi coloris, a leaf of a grassy, or grass-green color.

- [synonym] Bryon folio herbido amplo, Lactucis simili Theophr. L. 4. C. 7. (Dill.) Bryon [i.e. Bryum] with a large [grass-like; grass-green] leaf, similar to Lactuca [plants] (Theophrastus Book 4, Chapter 7).

- [Lupulus; “Hops, the Male and Female”] flores in mare dicto e foliorum alis racemosi, cannabacei, colore herbido pallescentes (Ray), the flowers called male from the axils of the leaves, racemose, cannabaceous [i.e. like hemp], being pale with a grass-green color.