As nouns the difference between herb and wort
is that herb is any green, leafy plant, or parts thereof, used to flavor or season food while wort is a plant; herb; vegetable or wort can be liquid extract from the ground malt and grain soaked in hot water, the mash, as one of the steps in making beer.
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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wort
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), from (etyl) . More at (l).
Noun
(
en noun)
A plant; herb; vegetable.
*:
- he drinks water, and lives on wort leaves, pulse, like a hogg, or scraps like a dog […].
* 1845 , Rev. Jeremy Taylor, Works :
- It is an excellent pleasure to be able to take pleasure in worts and water, in bread and onions, for then a man can never want pleasure when it is so ready for him, that nature hath spread it over all its provisions.
Any of various plants or herbs.
Derived terms
* (
vern,
adder's wort)
* adderwort
* (
American lungwort)
* (
asterwort)
* awlwort
* banewort
* barrenwort
* (
bearwort)
* bellwort
* birthwort
* bishop's wort
* bitterwort
* bladderwort
* blawort
* bloodwort
* blue navelwort
* blue throatwort
* blushwort
* bogwort
* boragewort
* bridewort
* brimstonewort
* brotherwort
* brownwort
* bruisewort
* bugwort
* bullock's lungwort
* bullwort
* burstwort
* butterwort
* cancerwort
* catwort
* clown's ringwort
* colewort
* common ragwort
* coralwort
* cow's lungwort
* crosswort
* damewort
* danewort
* dragonwort
* dropwort
* (
dungwort)
* ebony spleenwort
* elderwort
* (
European pillwort)
* (
fanwort)
* felonwort
* (
feltwort)
* felwort
* feverwort
* figwort
* fleawort
* (
flukewort)
* (
French lungwort)
* frostwort
* fumewort
* (
galewort)
* (
garlicwort)
* (
gentianwort)
* (
German madwort)
* (
gipsywort)
* glasswort
* (
golden lungwort)
* (
golden ragwort)
* goutwort
* (
greater spearwort)
* gutwort
* gypsywort
* hammerwort
* hartwort
* heathwort
* hemlock dropwort
* hillwort
* hogwort
* holewort
* honewort
* honeywort
* hoodwort
* hornwort
* ironwort
* kelpwort
* kidneywort
* knotwort
* laserwort
* lazarwort
* leadwort
* lesser spearwort
* lichwort
* lilywort
* liverwort
* lousewort
* lungwort
* lustwort
* madderwort
* madwort
* maidenhair spleenwort
* mallowwort
* marsh pennywort
* marshwort
* masterwort
* maudlinwort
* maywort
* meadowwort
* milkwort
* miterwort
* mitrewort
* modiwort
* moneywort
* moonwort
* moorwort
* motherwort
* moudiewort
* moudiwort
* mountain spiderwort
* (
mowdiewort)
* mudwort
* mugwort
* (
mulewort)
* (
nailwort)
* navelwort
* (
nettlewort)
* nipplewort
* (
peachwort)
* pearlwort
* pennywort
* pepperwort
* (
peterwort)
* pilewort
* pillwort
* pipewort
* quillwort
* quinsywort
* rattlewort
* ribwort
* rosewort
* rupturewort
* saltwort
* sandwort
* sawwort
* scorpionwort
* scurvywort
* sea lungwort
* sea milkwort
* sea ragwort
* sea sandwort
* sea starwort
* setterwort
* sicklewort
* sleepwort
* slipperwort
* sneezewort
* soapwort
* sparrowwort
* spearwort
* spiderwort
* spleenwort
* spoonwort
* springwort
* spurwort
*
*
*
*
* stabwort
* staggerwort
* staithwort
* standerwort
* starwort
* staverwort
* stinkwort
* stitchwort
* stonewort
* strapwort
* sulphurwort
* swallowwort
* sweetwort
* talewort
* tetterwort
* thoroughwort
* throatwort
* thrumwort
* toothwort
* (
towerwort)
* (
tree lungwort)
* (
trophywort)
* (
wall pennywort)
* wallwort
* wartwort
* water dropwort
* water figwort
* water pennywort
* (
water starwort)
* waterwort
* (
white navelwort)
* (
white swallowwort)
* (
willowwort)
* woundwort
* (
yellow starwort)
* yellowwort
See also
* (projectlink)
Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) (m), .
Noun
(-)
Liquid extract from the ground malt and grain soaked in hot water, the mash, as one of the steps in making beer
See also
* (wikipedia)
Anagrams
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