Herb vs Vegetable - What's the difference?
herb | vegetable | Related terms |
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.
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Any plant.
A plant raised for some edible part of it, such as the leaves, roots, fruit or flowers, but excluding any plant considered to be a fruit, grain, or spice in the culinary sense.
The edible part of such a plant.
(figuratively, derogatory) A person whose brain (or, infrequently, body) has been damaged so that they cannot interact with the surrounding environment; a brain-dead person.
Of or relating to plants.
Of or relating to vegetables.
Herb is a related term of vegetable.
As a proper noun herb
is .As a noun vegetable is
any plant.As an adjective vegetable is
of or relating to plants.herb
English
(wikipedia herb)Noun
(en noun)- flocks grazing the tender herb