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The decadent Brillat-Savarin, a triple-cream delight, embodies the vibrant foraging of goats, while Spring Cheddar — made from the milk of cows that have grazed spring pastures — is subtly sweet and lightly herbaceous.

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The elevated snack tray comes with crudités alongside a pesto yogurt sauce, a tuna tostada, a carpaccio hand roll, shrimp toast and a refreshing, fruity and herbaceous granita that comes in a hollowed-out tangerine rind.

The rest of the book profiles 368 “often beautiful, but mostly unwanted” plants, organized into sections for trees and shrubs, herbaceous plants, grasses and grasslike plants and aquatic weeds.

Increased pronghorn productivity is associated with higher shrub cover and herbaceous biomass -- that is to say biomass that isn't woody, like trees.

However, plants that need a minimum number of winter chill hours to bloom, like lilacs and herbaceous peonies, may not do as well in this environment.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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