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Yerba buena or hierba buena is the Spanish name for a number of aromatic plants, most of which belong to the mint family. Yerba buena translates as "good herb". The specific plant species regarded as yerba buena varies from region to region, depending on what grows wild in the surrounding landscape, or which species is customarily grown in ...
The area included Yerba Buena Cove, a favored anchorage, and the name was later extended to the Isla de la Yerba Buena (Yerba Buena Island), which faced the cove. In 1835, the civilian pueblo of Yerba Buena was founded on the shores of the cove, which would later grow into the American city of San Francisco.
Hierba buena (Good herb) is a name given to a variety of mint teas sold loose in many markets. This is similar to yerba mate , used throughout many Latin American countries as mate , and widely regarded to have health benefits.
The uninhabited northeastern area of San Francisco was called El Paraje de Yerba Buena (The Place of the Good Herb), derived from the Spanish geographical term paraje, meaning "place", "camp", or "stopping point" and yerba buena, the Spanish name for plants in the mint family, used in Alta California for Clinopodium douglasii, which grew abundantly in this area.
Among the top 100 words in the English language, which make up more than 50% of all written English, the average word has more than 15 senses, [134] which makes the odds against a correct translation about 15 to 1 if each sense maps to a different word in the target language. Most common English words have at least two senses, which produces 50 ...
The pronunciation of yerba mate in Spanish is [ˈɟʝeɾβa ˈmate]. [14] The stress on the word mAte falls on the first syllable. [14] The word hierba is Spanish for 'herb'; yerba is the variant spelling of hierba used throughout Latin America. [16] Yerba may be understood as 'herb', but also as 'grass
It includes California yerba santa (Eriodictyon californica), along with other similarly named plants.Yerba santa means "sacred herb" in the Spanish language.The name Eriodictyon, from the Greek erio + dictyon refers to the wooly surface of the abaxial leaves.
USS Portsmouth, under command of John B. Montgomery, supplied the rebels and later captured Yerba Buena. U.S. Consul Thomas O. Larkin, concerned about the increasing possibility of war, sent a request to Commodore John D. Sloat of U.S. Navy's Pacific Squadron, for a warship to protect U.S. citizens and interests in Alta California.