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noun
Idiom1.
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.
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Archaic. herbage.
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give it the herbs, Australian Slang. to use full power, especially in accelerating a car.
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Herbs
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English herbe < Old French erbe, herbe < Latin herba
1250–1300; Middle English herbe < Old French erbe, herbe < Latin herba
Related forms
herb·less, adjective
herb·like, adjective
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Word Origin & History
herb
late 13c., erbe, from O.Fr. erbe, from L. herba "grass, herb." Refashioned after Latin since 15c., but the h- was mute until 19c. Herbaceous is from 1640s.
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American Heritage
Science Dictionary
herb  (ûrb) Pronunciation Key
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. herbaceous adjective (hûr-bā'shəs, ûr-) |
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Slang Dictionary
herb definitionand erb
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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