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HERBS
Noun
herbs
plural of herb
Anagrams
• Behrs, brehs, hrebs
Source: Wiktionary
HERB
Herb, n. Etym: [OE. herbe, erbe, OF. herbe, erbe, F. herbe, L. herba; perh. akin to Gr. forbh` food, pasture, fe`rbein to feed.]
1. A plant whose stem does not become woody and permanent, but dies, at least down to the ground, after flowering.
Note: Annual herbs live but one season; biennial herbs flower the second season, and then die; perennial herbs produce new stems year after year.
2. Grass; herbage. And flocks Grazing the tender herb. Milton. Herb bennet. (Bot.) See Bennet.
– Herb Christopher (Bot.), an herb (Actæa spicata), whose root is used in nervous diseases; the baneberry. The name is occasionally given to other plants, as the royal fern, the wood betony, etc.
– Herb Gerard (Bot.), the goutweed; -- so called in honor of St. Gerard, who used to be invoked against the gout. Dr. Prior.
– Herb grace, or Herb of grace. (Bot.) See Rue.
– Herb Margaret (Bot.), the daisy. See Marguerite.
– Herb Paris (Bot.), an Old World plant related to the trillium (Paris quadrifolia), commonly reputed poisonous.
– Herb Robert (Bot.), a species of Geranium (G. Robertianum.)
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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