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herb
1[ urbor, especially British, hurb ]
Herb
2[ hurb ]
noun
- a male given name, form of Herbert.
herb
/ ɜːrb; hɜːb /
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
- a slang term for marijuana
herb
/ ûrb /
- 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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Derived Forms
- ˈherbˌlike, adjective
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Other Words From
- herb·less adjective
- herb·like adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of herb1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of herb1
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Idioms and Phrases
- give it the herbs, Australian Slang. to use full power, especially in accelerating a car.
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Example Sentences
The flowers and leaves of this herb are used to make medications and the supplement is popularly used for depression.
Wonderful sausage: dense, herb-spangled links that are more lean than fatty, but nevertheless emphatically succulent.
Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
And the herb has a huge following: almost 13 percent of Vermont residents report using in the last month.
Later, Herb decides that the story about how he made up that story is just as good.
Roman Pane who accompanied Columbus on his second voyage alludes to another method of using the herb.
It was supposed by many on its discovery to grow like the engraving given—in form resembling a tree or shrub rather than an herb.
How long shall the land mourn, and the herb of every field wither for the wickedness of them that dwell therein?
The herb was only to be found in its highest perfection upon the southern coasts of the Mediterranean.
Rosin-weed has always seemed to me to be a harmless herb, which is shown also by its use among children as chewing gum.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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