noun
- a flowering plant whose stem above ground does not become woody.
- such a plant when valued for its medicinal properties, flavor, scent, or the like.
- Often the herb. Slang. marijuana.
- Archaic. herbage.
- give it the herbs, Australian Slang. to use full power, especially in accelerating a car.
noun
- a male given name, form of Herbert.
noun
- a seed-bearing plant whose aerial parts do not persist above ground at the end of the growing season; herbaceous plant
-
- any of various usually aromatic plants, such as parsley, rue, and rosemary, that are used in cookery and medicine
- (as modifier)a herb garden
- Caribbean a slang term for marijuana
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.
- 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.