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Herb vs Yerb - What's the difference?

herb | yerb |

As nouns the difference between herb and yerb

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

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

    * ----

    yerb

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1850, author=William Cullen Bryant, title=Letters of a Traveller, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="At the same time we got a yerb " (such was his pronunciation) "on the hills, which some call lion-heart, and others snake-head." }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1895, author=Charles Egbert Craddock, title=The Phantoms Of The Foot-Bridge, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=When he ventured to sneeze, Mrs. Roxby compounded and administered a "yerb tea," a sovereign remedy against colds, which he tasted on compulsion and in great doubt, and swallowed with alacrity and confidence, finding its basis the easily recognizable "toddy." }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1911, author=Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, title=Brother Copas, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The ancients, by which I mean the Greeks, set amazin' store by the yerb . }}

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