herb








noun

  1. a flowering plant whose stem above ground does not become woody.
  2. such a plant when valued for its medicinal properties, flavor, scent, or the like.
  3. Often the herb. Slang. marijuana.
  4. Archaic. herbage.
Idioms
  1. give it the herbs, Australian Slang. to use full power, especially in accelerating a car.

noun

  1. a male given name, form of Herbert.

noun

  1. a seed-bearing plant whose aerial parts do not persist above ground at the end of the growing season; herbaceous plant
    1. any of various usually aromatic plants, such as parsley, rue, and rosemary, that are used in cookery and medicine
    2. (as modifier)a herb garden
  2. Caribbean a slang term for marijuana
n.

c.1300, erbe “non-woody plant,” from Old French erbe “grass, herb, plant” (12c.), from Latin herba “grass, an herb, herbage, turf.” Refashioned after Latin since 15c., but the h- was mute until 19c. Slang meaning “marijuana” is attested from 1960s.

  1. A flowering plant whose stem does not produce woody tissue and generally dies back at the end of each growing season. Both grasses and forbs are herbs.
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