OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 7713

herb

/hɜːb/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
hierba culinaria
Any green, leafy plant, or parts thereof, used to flavour or season food.
planta medicinal
A plant whose roots, leaves or seeds, etc. are used in medicine.
For twenty-five years he has done all sorts of odd jobs: digging ginseng (a herb) in the Long White Mountains, fishing in the Black River, and washing gold dust at Hailanpao. Witho…
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?
hierba
Cannabis.
The room was thick and sour with the smell of herb.
You think he's got any herb?
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