forb

今日は今年の仕事納めです。つまりオフィスのお掃除が主な仕事です。
さて、Sean B. Carrollの 'The Serengeti Rules' を読んでいます。

The trees and tall grass eventually ended at an enormous flood-plain. We pulled off the road and climbed out of the truck to take in a breathtaking panorama. The foreground was carpeted with lush green grass and forbs, and was cut by a wide stream and its side-channels, which attracted flocks of yellow-billed storks, whistling ducks, and spur-winged geese.

木でも "grass" でもない "forbs" はどんな植物？　辞書を見ます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: Botany A herbaceous flowering plant other than a grass.: Species were classified according to their growth form; forbs include all herbaceous dicotyledonous species (including Fabaceae).

・Collins Dictionary: a broad-leaved herbaceous plant, as distinguished from the grasses, sedges, shrubs, and trees

・Wiktionary: (chiefly ecology) Any non-woody flowering plant that is not a graminoid (a grass, sedge, or rush).
草は全て "grass" と思っていましたが、葉が細長くないクローバーなどは "forb" とよばれるのですね。 "grass" も英英辞典の説明を見ます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: Vegetation consisting of typically short plants with long, narrow leaves, growing wild or cultivated on lawns and pasture, and as a fodder crop.: The ground was mostly barren with just short grass, where no vegetation dared to grow.
"long, narrow leaves" となっていますね。でも一般的には英語でも草は "grass" で済ましている気がします。