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Herb vs Yarrow - What's the difference?

herb | yarrow |

As nouns the difference between herb and yarrow

is that herb is any green, leafy plant, or parts thereof, used to flavor or season food while yarrow is any of several pungent eurasian and north american herbs, of the genus achillea , used in traditional herbal medicine or yarrow can be (uk) the green woodpecker, picus viridis .

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

    Anagrams

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    yarrow

    English

    (wikipedia yarrow)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • any of several pungent Eurasian and North American herbs, of the genus Achillea , used in traditional herbal medicine
  • Synonyms
    * milfoil
    Hyponyms
    * Alps yarrow, * Chinese yarrow, * common yarrow, Achillea millefolium * Egyptian yarrow, * fernleaf yarrow, * Ligurian yarrow, * noble yarrow, * Siberian yarrow,

    Etymology 2

    (Picus viridis) (Picus viridis)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (UK) The green woodpecker, Picus viridis .
  • Anagrams

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