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Herb vs Turnip - What's the difference?

herb | turnip |

As nouns the difference between herb and turnip

is that herb is any green, leafy plant, or parts thereof, used to flavor or season food while turnip is the white root of a yellow-flowered plant, Brassica rapa, grown as a vegetable and as fodder for cattle.

As a proper noun Herb

is a diminutive=Herbert given name.

herb

English

(wikipedia herb)

Noun

(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

    Synonyms

    * (marijuana) grass, weed

    Hyponyms

    * See also

    Related terms

    * arbor * herbaceous * herbage * herbal * herbarium * herbicidal * herbicide * herbivore * herbivorous * herbed up

    Anagrams

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    turnip

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The white root of a yellow-flowered plant, Brassica rapa , grown as a vegetable and as fodder for cattle.
  • (Scotland, Ireland, Cornwall, Atlantic Canada) The yellow root of a related plant, the swede or Brassica napus .

    • Synonyms

    * (Brassica rapa) (summer turnip), swede (Ireland, Northern England, Scotland), tumshie (Scotland), white turnip (Cornwall, Scotland)

    Derived terms

    * fall off the turnip truck * Swedish turnip * (turnip flea) * (turnip fly)

    See also

    * rutabaga * swede * turnip greens

    References