• (British, Australia, New Zealand) enPR: hû(r)b, IPA: /hɜːb/
• (America, Canada) enPR: (h)ûrb, IPA: /(h)ɝb/

herb

1. (countable) Any green, leafy plant, or parts thereof, used to flavour or season food.
2. (countable) A plant whose roots, leaves or seeds, etc. are used in medicine.

   If any medicinal herbs used by witches were supposedly evil, then how come people from at least the past benefited from the healing properties of such herbs?

3. (uncountable, slang, euphemistic) Marijuana.
4. (countable, botany) A plant whose stem is not woody and does not persist beyond each growing season
5. (uncountable, obsolete) Grass; herbage.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book 4”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:

     flocks grazing the tender herb

• (marijuana) grass, weed

• arbor
• herbaceous
• herbage
• herbal
• herbarium
• herbicidal
• herbicide
• herbivore
• herbivorous
• herbed up
• herblet
• pseudoherb

• French: herbe, herbes
• German: Kraut
• Italian: erba aromatica, erba, odori
• Portuguese: erva
• Russian: трава́
• Spanish: hierba culinaria

• French: plante médicinale
• German: Heilkraut
• Italian: erba medicinale
• Portuguese: erva medicinal
• Russian: (лечебная) трава́
• Spanish: planta medicinal

• French: herbe
• Italian: erba
• Portuguese: erva
• Russian: тра́вка
• Spanish: hierba

• enPR: hû(r)b, IPA: /hɜː(ɹ)b/

1. A male given name