Herb

Definitions: Herb

Herb

Noun

1. A plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests.

2. Aromatic potherb used in cookery for its savory qualities.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

"Herb" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "an army", "bright".

Date "herb" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Etymology: Herb \Herb\, noun. [from Old English expression herbe, erbe, Old French herbe, erbe, French herbe, from Latin expression herba; perhaps akin to Greek forbh` food, pasture, fe`rbein to feed.]. (Websters 1913)

Bible

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Herb

Vegetable

Plant; tree, shrub, bush; creeper; herb, herbage; grass.

Crosswords: Herb

German (abrasive, acerbic, acetous, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, austere, bitter, cruel, dour, dry, harsh, harshly, lurid, rude, severe, sharp, sour, tangy, tart, tartly).

For seventy grand, Herb, you can afford to be humiliated. (Quiz Show; writing credit: Paul Attanasio)

Unless I'm mistaken, this is a wild herb known as 'Angelica Vulgaris'. (Party Camp; writing credit: Paul L. Brown)

Herb and whack MC's, drum racks ("Left & Right Featuring Method Man And Redman"; performing artist: D'Angelo)

Chop chop, chunk it up fat man herb ("Saturday (Oooh! Oooh!)"; performing artist: Ludacris)

Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass Double Feature (1966)

Musical Featurette: Lionel Hampton and Herb Jeffries (1956)

The Herb Shriner Show (1949)

This Guy's In Love With You (performing artist: Herb Alpert)

Diamonds (performing artist: Herb Alpert)

A TASTE OF HONEY (performing artist: Herb Alpert & Tijuana Brass )

Taste of Honey (Instrumental) (performing artist: Herb Alpert and The Tijuana Brass)

RISE (performing artist: Herb Alpert )

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Burpee : The Complete Vegetable & Herb Gardener : A Guide to Growing Your Garden Organically (reference)

• Diary of a French Herb Garden (reference)

• The Spice and Herb Bible: A Cook's Guide (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Herb Quarterly (reference)

• Iha Newsletter - International Herb Assn (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Music

• Listening Herb V.2: Chamomile [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• Pedrini Acciaio & Acciaio Stainless Steel Herb Mincer (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

X-1-2 with Pilots Robert Champine Herb Hoover.Credit: NASA.

Herb Meyers getting ready to don the goggles to protect eyes from snow blindness. Minnesota Camp to Byrd Station Traverse.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Minnesota Camp to Byrd Station traverse crew. Herb Meyers, magnetic observer, kneeling in front.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Herb Webb (left), NRCS Resource Conservationist, Flathead Indian Reservation Tribal Complex, Pablo, MT, and Joel Clairmont, tribal member, local extension agent, grain, hay, and cattle producer, discuss the quality of alfalfa he is about to bale. Clairmon.Credit: Bob Nichols.

Native Plant Nursery Manager for Glacier National Park, describes a revegetation project to Herb Webb, NRCS Resource Conservationist (left). Three staff members, volunteers, and local students through a cooperative agreement with the local school district.Credit: Bob Nichols.

Herb Webb, NRCS, Resource Conservationist, Flathead Indian Reservation Tribal Complex, Pablo, Montana checks of field of canola on a clients farm. Canola has emerged as a viable alternative oil crop, not only for its products, but also for the potential to diversify cropping systems. The principle use for canola is vegetable oil.Credit: USDA.

Snow plant, a bright red saprophytic herb from the family Pyrolaceae, and photographer.Credit: Russ Holmes.

Trillium, a North American herb of the Liliaceae family.Credit: T. Hogervorst.

The award winning original Herb Dressing May serve chilled or heated / / Lynn.Credit: Library of Congress.

The dipping pool in the Cottage Herb Garden.Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

He gathered here and there an herb, or grubbed up a root, and put it into the basket on his arm.

I never had nothing against Herb.

Those plants of whose greenness withered we make herb tea for the sick serve but a humble use, and are most employed by quacks.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Herbal therapy employs an individual herb or a mixture of herbs for healing purposes. (references)

An herb is a plant or plant part that produces and contains chemical substances that act upon the body. (references)

Terms from years ago, such as pot, herb, grass, weed, Mary Jane, and reefer, are still used. You might also hear the names Aunt Mary, skunk, boom, gangster, kif, or ganja. (references)

Business

The company also distributes its Kira, Gingai, and Medic Herb ranges in the U.K. market. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Green herb

Expressions using "herb": aromatic herb ♦ balsam herb ♦ bitter herb ♦ Crude herb moxibustion ♦ Fuller's herb ♦ great willow herb ♦ green herb ♦ healing herb ♦ herb beer ♦ herb bennet ♦ herb Christopher ♦ Herb cupping ♦ herb doctor ♦ herb garden ♦ herb gerard ♦ Herb grace ♦ Herb Margaret ♦ herb mercury ♦ herb of grace ♦ herb Paris ♦ herb robert ♦ herb roberts ♦ herb Simon ♦ herb tea ♦ medicinal herb ♦ poisonous herb ♦ pot herb ♦ Saint Martin's herb ♦ St. Barbara's herb. Additional references.

Beginning with "herb": herb-dominated, herb-eating, herb-flavoured, herb-garden, herb-gardens, herb-rich, herb-robert, herb-scented, herb-smelling, herb-steeped, Herb-woman, Herb-women.

Ending with "herb": tall-herb, willow-herb.

Afrikaan

gras (grass). (various references)

Albanian

erëza (condiment, kitchen herbs, relish, seasoning), barishte kuzhine, barishte (grass, green goods, greens, herbage), bar mjekësor, bar (bar, brasserie, cure, drug, gin mill, grass, herbage, local, medicament, medicine, pasturage, pasture, physic, pub, saloon). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نبات طبي (medicinal plant), ‏عشبة عطرية, ‏عشب (grass, pasture, weed). (various references)

Bulgarian 

трева (grass, herbage, turf), лековита билка (simple), билка, подправка (alloy, condiment, counterfeit, doctor, flavoring, flavouring, forgery, imitation, relish, sauce, seasoning, spice). (various references)

Chinese 

草本 (herbaceous, herbal), 香草 . (various references)

Czech

rostlina (plant, vegetable), bylina (capsicum, plant). (various references)

Danish

vinterspinat (garden dock, patience, patience dock), romersk spinat (garden dock, patience, patience dock), græs (bash, boo 4)draw, cannabis, fodder, forage, grass, hagga, hay, Indian hay, Mary Jane, pasture, pot, puff, root, smoke, snop, tea, viper's weed, weed), engelsk spinat (garden dock, patience, patience dock), droge (drug). (various references)

Dutch

kruid (drug, grass, spice). (various references)

Esperanto

herbo (grass). (various references)

Faeroese

urt (grass), gras (grass). (various references)

Farsi 

گیاه (Plant, Vegetable), علف (Grass, Vegetable), رستنی (Plant, Vegetable), شاخ وبرگ گیاهان , بوته (Brushwood, Bush, Shrub, Sprig, Underbrush). (various references)

Finnish

ruoho (grass), pinaattihierakka (garden dock, patience, patience dock). (various references)

French

herbe. (various references)

Frisian

krûd (grass, gunpowder), gers (grass). (various references)

German

kraut (cabbage, foliage, grass, haulm, herbage, plant, sauerkraut, tobacco, tops). (various references)

Greek 

βότανο (wort), χόρτο (bash, boo 4)draw, cannabis, fodder, forage, grass, hagga, hay, Indian hay, Mary Jane, pasture, pot, puff, root, smoke, snop, tea, viper's weed, weed). (various references)

Hawaiian

bar (grass). (various references)

Hebrew 

עשב תבלין, עשב (grass, weed), צמח מרפא (medicinal plant). (various references)

Hungarian

fû (grass, lawn). (various references)

Icelandic

gras (grass). (various references)

Indonesian

rumput-rumputan. (various references)

Irish

féar (grass, hay). (various references)

Italian

erba (bash, boo 4)draw, cannabis, fodder, forage, gramineae, Gramineal, grass, grasses, hagga, hay, Indian hay, Mary Jane, pasture, pot, puff, root, smoke, snop, tea, viper's weed, weed), erbe (herbage, herbs). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

ハーバード大学 (50% beam splitter, half, half coat, half made, half mirror, half size camera, half swing, half tone, half volley, halfback, halftime, halfway house, harem, harem pants, harmonica, harmonize, harmony, harp, harpoon, harpsichord, harpy, Harvard University, herb tea, hierarchy, high, high octane gasoline, high quality, high-class, high-end, high-grade, highjack, high-key, high-key tone, high-octane, high-sulfur, highway, highway patrol, hijack, hike, hiker, hiking, hurler derby, hyena, jai-alai, mouth organ, someone of mixed Japanese-foreign race, stylish fellow, three-quarter, top coat, westernized). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ハーブ . (various references)

Korean 

나물. (various references)

Malay

rumput (grass). (various references)

Manx

luss, lus (leek, plant, vervain), losserey (legume, plant, vegetable). (various references)

Norwegian

gress (grass). (various references)

Papiamen

yerbè (grass), yerba (grass). (various references)

Pig Latin

erbhay

Portuguese

erva (bash, boo 4)draw, cannabis, fodder, forage, grass, hagga, hay, Indian hay, Mary Jane, pasture, pot, puff, root, smoke, snop, tea, viper's weed, weed). (various references)

Romanian

plantã ierboasã, iarbå (grass), iarbã (grass, grazing, sward), buruianã (good for nothing, Heath, Heather, plant, rogue, vegetable, weed). (various references)

Russian 

трава (grass, green fodder, green-fodder). (various references)

Scottish

lus (an herb, plant, pnm. Luss, weed), luibh (an herb, plant), feur (grass, hay). (various references)

Sepedi

moa
unkwane. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

trava (grass), lekovita biljka. (various references)

Shona

muti (tree). (various references)

Spanish

hierba (bash, boo 4)draw, cannabis, Clary, fodder, forage, grass, hagga, hay, Indian hay, Mary Jane, pasture, pot, puff, root, smoke, snop, tea, viper's weed, weed), yerba (fodder, forage, grass, pasture). (various references)

Sranan

grasi (glass, grass). (various references)

Swahili

majani (grass). (various references)

Swazi

úm-bhídvo. (various references)

Swedish

växt (development, growth, plant, tumor, tumour, vegetable), ört (plant, wort). (various references)

Tagalog

damó (grass). (various references)

Thai

สมุนไพร (simple). (various references)

Turkish

ot (grass, greenstuff, hashish, hay, herbaceous, herbage, herbal, herby, joint, pasturage, pasture, vegetable, weed). (various references)

Ukranian 

рослинність (green, greenery, vegetables, vegetation), рослина (plant, vegetable), трава (grass). (various references)

Vietnamese 

cây thảo, cỏ. (various references)

Welsh

llysieuyn (vegetable). (various references)

�im. (various references)

gramen, herba, herbae, herbam, herbarum, herbas, herbis, Rumex patientia. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "herb": herbaceous, herbage, herbages, herbal, herbalist, herbalists, herbals, herbaria, herbarium, herbariums, herbed, herbicidal, herbicidally, herbicide, herbicides, herbier, herbiest, herbivore, herbivores, herbivories, herbivorous, herbivory, herbless, herblike, herbs, herby. (additional references)

Words ending with "herb": cowherb, potherb. (additional references)

Words containing "herb": cowherbs, featherbed, featherbedded, featherbedding, featherbeddings, featherbeds, featherbrain, featherbrained, featherbrains, leatherback, leatherbacks, motherboard, motherboards, potherbs, sherbert, sherberts, sherbet, sherbets, tetherball, tetherballs, weatherboard, weatherboarded, weatherboarding, weatherboardings, weatherboards. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Herb" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cherb, derb, Ehb, Ehirobo, Erb, hab, Harb, Harib, havb, heab, hearby, heb, Hebro, heeb, heer, heib, Hemba, hepb, herba, herbe, herc, herf, herg, heri, herk, herp, herra, herv, herz, hezb-i, hherb, hiab, hierby, hirg, hreu, jerb, lerb, nerb, perb, Phurba, Phurbu, terb, yerba. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: her, reb.

-2 letters: be, eh, er, he, re.

+1 letter: berth, herbs, herby, rehab.

+2 letters: basher, bather, bertha, berths, bother, breach, breath, breech, broche, busher, cherub, herbal, herbed, hereby, hombre, rehabs, rhebok.

+3 letters: abhenry, bashers, batcher, bathers, bearhug, bearish, becharm, begorah, behaver, belcher, bencher, berhyme, berthas, berthed, beshrew, bethorn, betroth, bioherm, birched, birchen, birches, birthed, blather, blether, blither, blucher, blusher, botcher, bothers, braches, brachet, brasher, brashes, breadth, breathe, breaths, breathy, brecham, brechan, brioche, brothel, brother, brushed, brusher, brushes, burgher, burthen, bushers, bushier, butcher, chamber, cherubs, cowherb, halberd, halbert, hauberk, herbage, herbals, herbier, hirable, hobbler, hombres, humbler, potherb, rebirth, rheboks, sherbet, theorbo, thereby, turbeth, whereby.

+4 letters: abhenrys, abhorred, abhorrer, ambusher, bachelor, banisher, barathea, barehead, barghest, barouche, batchers, bathrobe, beachier, bearhugs, becharms, bedchair, bedrench, beechier, begorrah, behavers, behavior, beholder, belchers, benchers, berdache, berhymed, berhymes, berthing, bescorch, beshiver, beshrews, beshroud, besmirch, bethorns, betroths, bichrome, bioherms, bitchery, bitchier, blancher, blathers, bleacher, blencher, blethers, blighter, blithers, bluchers, blushers, borehole, borsches, botchers, botchery, botchier, bothered, brachets, branched, branches, brashest, brashier, breached, breacher, breaches, breadths, breathed, breather, breathes, brechams, brechans, breeched, breeches, brethren, brighten, brighter, brioches, britches, broached, broacher, broaches, brochure, brooches, brothels, brothers, brunched, brunches, brushers, brushier, bunchier, burghers, burthens, busheler, bushfire, butchers, butchery, chambers, cherubic, cherubim, chubbier, cowherbs, eurybath, habanera, hagberry, halberds, halberts, harbored, harborer, harebell, hauberks, hearable, hebraize, herbages, herbaria, herbiest, herbless, herblike, hibernal, highbred, hireable, hobblers, homebred, homebrew, hornbeam, horrible, hubrises, humblers, hybrises, neighbor, potherbs, rebirths, rebought, rebranch, rehabbed, rehabber, rehoboam, rhabdome, rheobase, rhumbaed, rosebush, shabbier, sharable, sherbert, sherbets, theorbos, throbbed, throbber, thurible, turbeths, unbreech, whimbrel.

+5 letters: abhenries, abhorrent, abhorrers, abolisher, acrophobe, ambushers, bachelors, banishers, baratheas, barghests, barhopped, barouches, bathrobes, bathwater, beachgoer, beachwear, bearishly, becharmed, bedchairs, behaviors, behaviour, beholders, benchmark, berdaches, berhyming, beshivers, beshrewed, beshrouds, bethorned, betrothal, betrothed, biosphere, birdhouse, birthdate, birthrate, bitterish, blanchers, blathered, blatherer, bleachers, blenchers, blethered, blighters, blithered, blotchier, boreholes, bothering, brachiate, branchiae, branchier, branchlet, brashiest, brashness, breachers, breaching, breathers, breathier, breathily, breathing, breeching, brightens, brightest, broachers, brochette, brochures, brothered, brotherly, brushfire, brushiest, bryophyte, buhrstone, bulrushes, burnished, burnisher, burnishes, burthened, bushelers, bushfires, butchered, butcherly, chambered, chemisorb, cherubims, crushable, debaucher, earthborn, euphorbia, eurybaths, exhibitor, eyebright, furbished, furbisher, furbishes, gibberish, habaneras, habergeon, hackberry, hamburger, handlebar, harbinger, harborage, harborers, harboured, harebells, harquebus, headboard, heartbeat, heartburn, hebraized, hebraizes, hellbroth, hellebore, herbalist, herbarium, herbicide, herbivore, herbivory, hereabout, heritable, hibernate, hobnobber, homebreds, homebrews, honorable, hornbeams, horribles, horseback, horsebean, husbander, hybridize, hyperbola, hyperbole, hypercube, inbreathe, inhabiter, jobholder, kurbashed, kurbashes, neighbors, neighbour, publisher, quebracho, reachable, refurbish, rehabbers, rehabbing, rehoboams, reinhabit, republish, rhabdomes, rheobases, rhombuses, rubbishes, sagebrush, seborrhea, shadberry, shareable, sherberts, shewbread, shipborne, shorebird, showbread, shrubbery, shrubbier, subchaser, sunbather, tarbushes, terebinth, throbbers, thuribles, trebuchet, unbrushed, whimbrels, workbench.

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