Yerba Buena

  

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Yerba Buena

Definition: Yerba Buena

Yerba Buena

Noun

1. Trailing perennial evergreen herb of northwestern United States with small white flowers; used medicinally.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Yerba Buena

Synonyms: Micromeria chamissonis (n), Micromeria douglasii (n), Satureja douglasii (n). (additional references)

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Specialty Definition: Yerba Buena

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

San Francisco, California was named Nova Albion by Sir Francis Drake, around 1780. July 9, 1846, Captain John B. Montgomery renamed it Yerba Buena (an alternative form of hierba buena, meaning "good herb" and referring to mint).

It was finally renamed San Francisco, after Saint Francis of Assisi, on January 30, 1847.

Yerba Buena Island, sits in the San Francisco Bay between San Francisco and Oakland.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Yerba Buena."

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Commercial Usage: Yerba Buena

DomainTitle

Books

  • On the Level San Francisco - Yerba Buena Gardens Walking Tour (reference)

  • Tecito de Yerba Buena (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Yerba Buena

Photos:
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Photo Album: Yerba Buena

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Front side of a postcard entitled "Trooping the Colors", featuring a parade ground scene at the Naval Training Station, San Francisco, California, located on Yerba Buena Island in San Francsico Bay. The reverse side of this card, Photo # NH 92063-A , features a comparison between conditions in civil life and in the U.S. Navy. Credit: NAVY.

Back side of a postcard entitled "Trooping the Colors", featuring a comparison between conditions in civil life and in the Navy, and other benefits of a Naval career. The front side of this card, Photo # NH 92063, features a parade ground scene at the Naval Training Station, San Francisco, California, located on Yerba Buena Island in San Francsico Bay. Credit: NAVY.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Yerba Buena

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

yerba buena

97

yerba buena high school

30

yerba buena center arts

21
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: Yerba Buena

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-b-e-e-n-r-u-y"

-3 letters: beanery.

-4 letters: baubee, eyebar, nabber, nearby, unbear, urbane, yabber.

-5 letters: abbey, anear, areae, arena, aurae, barbe, barny, barye, beery, bunya, buran, buyer, enure, nubby, ranee, rebbe, rebuy, ruana, unary, unbar, urban, yearn, yerba.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Yerba Buena


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

59 65 72 62 61      42 75 65 6E 61

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01011001 01100101 01110010 01100010 01100001 00100000 01000010 01110101 01100101 01101110 01100001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#89 &#101 &#114 &#98 &#97 &#32 &#66 &#117 &#101 &#110 &#97

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0059 0065 0072 0062 0061      0042 0075 0065 006E 0061

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

597184686723687718067

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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