Herb vs Spices - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between herb and spices

is that herb is any green, leafy plant, or parts thereof, used to flavor or season food while spices is plural of lang=en.

is a diminutive=Herbert given name.

(wikipedia herb)

(en noun)

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

flocks grazing the tender herb

* (marijuana) grass, weed

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