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Definition of Herbs
1. herb [n] - See also: herb
Medical Definition of Herbs
1. Any plant designated as herb by any source. Formerly the term designated those angiosperms that have little or no woody tissue and die at the end of the growing season, especially in the temperate zones where winter cold suspends plant growth. It includes also plants used for their aromatic, savory, or medicinal properties. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Herbs
Literary usage of Herbs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1915)
"HERB, herbs. An herb is a plant that dies to the ground each year, or at least
that does not become woody. It may be annual, as bean, pigweed; biennial, ..."
2. Enquiry Into Plants and Minor Works on Odours and Weather Signs by Theophrastus (1916)
"Of the times of sowing and of germination of pot-herbs. I. Next we have to tell
of herbaceous plants : for this class remains of those which we ..."
3. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1876)
"Thick fleshy plants, mostly herbs, with alternate or opposite leaves. leaves,
and axillary ... herbs, with entire mostly opposite entire leaves. I LI. ..."
4. The Botanical Text-book by Asa Gray (1853)
"Perennial herbs grow after the latter mode, their stems dying down to or ...
herbs are plants in which the stem does not become woody and persistent, ..."
5. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"herbs. An Herb is a plant which dies to the ground each year. It may be annual,
as bean, candytuft, pigweed; biennial, as mullein, parsnip; perennial, ..."
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