herbage

[ ur-bij, hur- ]

/ ˈɜr bɪdʒ, ˈhɜr- /

nonwoody vegetation.

the succulent parts, leaves and stems, of herbaceous plants.

Law. the right to pasture one's cattle on another's land.

British. vegetation grazed by animals; pasturage.

Origin of herbage

1350–1400; Middle English < French; see herb, -age

her·baged, adjective

Why, in the spring, is the herbage under trees generally more luxuriant than it is beyond the spread of their branches?

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction |Various
He carries archipelagoes on his breast, and stretches out arms covered with herbage like pasture land.

Fruitfulness |Emile Zola
Trees and herbage were overwhelmed with pumice and volcanic dust.

The Story of the Hills |H. N. Hutchinson
A clouded sky dulls the herbage, a cloudless heaven brightens it, so that the grass almost reflects the firmament like water.

Nature Near London |Richard Jefferies

One's first impressions are of the green of the foliage and herbage.

Quaker Hill |Warren H. Wilson

herbage

/ (ˈhɜːbɪdʒ) /

herbaceous plants collectively, esp the edible parts on which cattle, sheep, etc, graze

the vegetation of pasture land; pasturage