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   yerba mansa
         n 1: stoloniferous herb of southwestern United States and Mexico
               having a pungent rootstock and small spicate flowers with
               white bracts suggesting an anemone [syn: {yerba mansa},
               {Anemopsis californica}]

English Dictionary: Yerevan by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Yerevan
n
  1. capital of Armenia [syn: Yerevan, Jerevan, Erivan, capital of Armenia]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   d8Yerba \[d8]Yer"ba\, n. [Sp.] (Bot.)
      An herb; a plant.
  
      Note: This word is much used in compound names of plants in
               Spanish; as, yerba buena [Sp., a good herb], a name
               applied in Spain to several kinds of mint ({Mentha
               sativa}, {viridis}, etc.), but in California
               universally applied to a common, sweet-scented labiate
               plant ({Micromeria Douglasii}).
  
      {Yerba dol osa}. [Sp., herb of the she-bear.] A kind of
            buckthorn ({Rhamnus Californica}).
  
      {Yerba mansa}. [Sp., a mild herb, soft herb.] A plant
            ({Anemopsis Californica}) with a pungent, aromatic
            rootstock, used medicinally by the Mexicans and the
            Indians.
  
      {Yerba reuma}. [Cf. Sp. reuma rheum, rheumatism.] A low
            California undershrub ({Frankenia grandifolia}).

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Yarrow Point, WA (town, FIPS 80150)
      Location: 47.64575 N, 122.21533 W
      Population (1990): 962 (384 housing units)
      Area: 0.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
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