herbage

Meanings

1. Herbs collectively.
2. Herbaceous plant growth, especially grass.
3. The fleshy, often edible, parts of plants.
4. The natural pasture of a land, considered as distinct from the land itself; hence, right of pasture (on another man's land).

Etymology

From Middle English herbage, from Old French erbage, from Early Medieval Latin herbāticum, from Latin herba (“grass”). By surface analysis, herb + -age.