herb
A plant whose stem is not woody and does not persist beyond each growing season.
Other meanings
Any green, leafy plant, or parts thereof, used to flavour or season food.
A plant whose roots, leaves or seeds, etc. are used in medicine.
“If any medicinal herbs used by witches were supposedly evil, then how come people from at least the past benefited from the healing properties of such herbs?”
A kind of
- vascular plant
Kinds of herb
- butter-flower
- golden thread
- golden seal
- globe flower
- legume
- clover
- sang
- wild ginger
Related words
- African dream herb
- cowherb
- death's herb
- devil's herb
- fuller's herb
- herbarian
- herb bennet
- herb box
- herb butter
- herb Christopher
- herbed
- herb doctor
Word history
From Latin "herba".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “herb” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.