herb-like

The uric acid streaks apparently ‘have a herb-like smell when fresh’ (Juniper & Parr 1998, p. 372).

Archive 2006-05-01 Darren Naish 2006

Never was black tea less herb-like; never draught of sillery, quaffed from goblet of rare

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861 Various

It grows 18in. high, is herb-like in the foliage, and very distinct from other species, more especially as regards its slender stems and somewhat large and irregular foliage.

Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies. John Wood

The leaves are herb-like, and, as the common name implies, like the leaves of the dandelion, similar in size, but more cut or lobed.

Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies. John Wood

_V. repens_ is herb-like; it creeps and roots, and has nearly white flowers in April; but _V. prostrata_ is a deciduous trailer, and the more common and best form has fine gentian-blue flowers; it is a capital rock plant, being most effective when hanging over the face of large stones.

Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies. John Wood

These large flowers are produced in bunches of six or ten on each branch, at the height of about eighteen inches; there are many stems, and each one is well branched, the species being very floriferous; the leaves are herb-like, lance-shaped, pointed, amplexicaul, and smooth; root-leaves spathulate.

Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies. John Wood

This species has flowers which vary much in size, from 2in. to 6in. across, and they are produced on stems 3ft. to 6ft. high, well furnished with large heart-shaped leaves of a herb-like character, distinctly nerved, toothed, and rough.

Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies. John Wood

There are many cases when even in the same family low and herb-like species have finely-cut leaves, while in shrubby or ligneous ones they more or less resemble those of the Laurel or Beech.

The Beauties of Nature and the Wonders of the World We Live In John Lubbock 1873

Yet this little herb-like willow, one of the most northerly and hardy of European plants, is a true tree at heart none the less for all that.

Science in Arcady Grant Allen 1873

There was a strange smoky and herb-like smell in the room.

Under the Redwoods Bret Harte 1869