Herb vs Spice - What's the difference?
herb | spice |
Any green, leafy plant, or parts thereof, used to flavor or season food.
Plant whose roots, leaves or seeds, etc. are used in medicine.
(slang, euphemistic) Marijuana.
(botany) A plant whose stem is not woody and does not persist beyond each growing season
(obsolete) Grass; herbage.
* Milton
(countable, uncountable) Plant matter (usually dried) used to season or flavour food.
(figurative, uncountable) Appeal, interest; an attribute that makes something appealing, interesting, or engaging.
(uncountable, Yorkshire) Sweets, candy.
(obsolete) Species; kind.
* Wyclif Bible, 1 Thessalonians v. 22
* Sir T. Elyot
To add spice or spices to.
(nonce word)
Spice is a coordinate term of herb.
In obsolete terms the difference between herb and spice
is that herb is grass; herbage while spice is species; kind.As nouns the difference between herb and spice
is that herb is any green, leafy plant, or parts thereof, used to flavor or season food while spice is plant matter (usually dried) used to season or flavour food.As a proper noun Herb
is a diminutive=Herbert given name.As a verb spice is
to add spice or spices to.herb
English
(wikipedia herb)Noun
(en noun)- flocks grazing the tender herb
Synonyms
* (marijuana) grass, weedHyponyms
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* ----spice
English
(wikipedia spice)Etymology 1
From (etyl) espice (modern .Noun
- Abstain you from all evil spice .
- Justice, although it be but one entire virtue, yet is described in two kinds of spices . The one is named justice distributive, the other is called commutative.