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Herb vs Vanilla - What's the difference?

herb | vanilla |

As nouns the difference between herb and vanilla

is that herb is any green, leafy plant, or parts thereof, used to flavor or season food while vanilla is any tropical, climbing orchid of the genus Vanilla (especially species: Vanilla planifolia), bearing podlike fruit yielding an extract used in flavoring food or in perfumes.

As a proper noun Herb

is a diminutive=Herbert given name.

As an adjective vanilla is

of vanilla.

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

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    Anagrams

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    vanilla

    Noun

  • (label) Any tropical, climbing orchid of the genus Vanilla (especially ), bearing podlike fruit yielding an extract used in flavoring food or in perfumes.
  • (label) The fruit or bean of the vanilla plant.
  • (label) The extract of the fruit of the vanilla plant.
  • (label) The distinctive fragrant flavour/flavor characteristic of vanilla extract.
  • (label) Any artificially produced homologue of vanilla extract, principally vanillin produced from lignin from the paper industry or from petrochemicals.
  • Derived terms

    * Cuban vanilla * vanilla grass

    Synonyms

    * (bean) vanilla bean * (extract) vanilla extract * (artificial extract) imitation vanilla

    Adjective

    (more)
  • Of .
  • Standard, plain, default, unmodified, basic.
  • (label) Not kinky, not involving BDSM.
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  • Plain; conventional; unimaginative.
  • Synonyms

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