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forb

[ fawrb ]

noun

  1. any herb that is not a grass or grasslike.


forb

/ ɔː /

noun

  1. any herbaceous plant that is not a grass
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

forb

/ ô /

  1. A broad-leaved herb (as opposed to a grass), especially one growing in a field, prairie, or meadow.
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of forb1

1920–25; < Greek ǰḗ food, fodder, derivative of é𾱲 to feed; akin to Old English beorgan, birgan to taste, eat, Old Norse bergja to taste
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of forb1

C20: from Greek ǰŧ food, from pherbein to graze
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The pond was built as a water retention basin to slow runoff from the campus, explained Beach Davis, but it is also a centerpiece to greenspace that includes a 15-acre tallgrass prairie, a 4-acre forb prairie, wetlands, a birdhouse trail and Heartland Gardens.

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Six more acres followed the next year, seeded with grass and forb suited to the microclimates within the site, and there have been several more such planting projects since.

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Dmitry A. Dokuchaev, a Russian intelligence officer who was one of the two agents who allegedly directed the Yahoo attack, was once known by the hacker nickname Forb and had specialized in purloining credit card numbers, writes Andrew E. Kramer, a Moscow correspondent for The New York Times.

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Until at least 2011, Mr. Dokuchaev was an editor of a Russian magazine titled Hacker, and he edited a section known as “Breaking In” under the byline Dmitry “Forb” Dokuchaev.

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By his own account, he once went by the hacker nickname Forb.

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