The herb used in that pasta sauce might be parsley.
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Herb
//(h)ɝb//
Synonyms for "herb" (209 found)
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Closest matches (42)
Strong matches (63)
Related words (104)
Noun(28 words)
materia medicamayapplemedicamentmedicationmedicinalmedicinal herbsmedicinemintmixturemoldmonkshoodmossmouldmouldermouldymulleinmushroommustardnonprescription drugofficinal
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8 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesRelated terms
12 entriesderived
46 entriesShowing 16 of 46 words.
has context
3 entriesis a
5 entriesrelated to
33 entriesShowing 16 of 33 words.
used for
1 entriesTranslations
164 translations across 79 languages.
Ancient Greek
2 entries- πόα noun (plant used in medicine)
- ἄρωμα noun (plant used to flavour food)
Arabic
1 entries- عُشْبَة طِبِّيَّة noun (plant used in medicine)
Armenian
1 entries- համեմունք noun (plant used to flavour food)
Bulgarian
3 entries- билка noun (plant used in medicine)
- зелена подправка noun (plant used to flavour food)
- трева noun (slang: marijuana)
Catalan
2 entries- herba noun (plant used to flavour food)
- herba noun (plant used in medicine)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 香草 noun (plant used to flavour food)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 草藥 /草药 noun (plant used in medicine)
- 香草 noun (plant used to flavour food)
Czech
1 entries- bylina noun (plant used in medicine)
Danish
3 entries- krydderurt noun (plant used to flavour food)
- lægeurt noun (plant used in medicine)
- urt noun (plant used to flavour food)
Dutch
2 entries- geneeskruid noun (plant used in medicine)
- keukenkruid noun (plant used to flavour food)
Esperanto
2 entries- drogherbo noun (plant used in medicine)
- herbo noun (plant used to flavour food)
Estonian
1 entries- maitsetaim noun (plant used to flavour food)
Faroese
1 entries- urt noun (plant used to flavour food)
Finnish
4 entries- rohto noun (plant used in medicine)
- ruoho noun (slang: marijuana)
- yrtti noun (plant used to flavour food)
- yrtti noun (plant used in medicine)
French
3 entries- herbe noun (slang: marijuana)
- herbe aromatique noun (plant used to flavour food)
- herbe médicinale noun (plant used in medicine)
Galician
3 entries- herba noun (plant used to flavour food)
- herba noun (plant used in medicine)
- herba noun (slang: marijuana)
Georgian
4 entries- ბალახი noun (plant used to flavour food)
- ბალახი noun (plant used in medicine)
- მცენარე noun (plant used to flavour food)
- მცენარე noun (plant used in medicine)
German
4 entries- Chruut noun (plant used to flavour food)
- Heilkraut noun (plant used in medicine)
- Kraut noun (slang: marijuana)
- Küchenkraut noun (plant used to flavour food)
Greek
3 entries- βότανο noun (plant used in medicine)
- μυρωδικό noun (plant used to flavour food)
- χόρτο noun (slang: marijuana)
Haitian Creole
1 entries- zèb noun (plant used to flavour food)
Hebrew
2 entries- יֶרֶק noun (plant used to flavour food)
- עֵשֶׂב noun (plant used to flavour food)
Hindi
2 entries- औषध noun (plant used in medicine)
- जड़ी बूटी noun (plant used to flavour food)
Hungarian
4 entries- fű noun (slang: marijuana)
- fűszernövény noun (plant used to flavour food)
- gyógyfű noun (plant used in medicine)
- gyógynövény noun (plant used in medicine)
Icelandic
1 entries- kryddjurt noun (plant used to flavour food)
Ido
2 entries- herbo noun (plant used to flavour food)
- herboro noun (plant used in medicine)
Indonesian
1 entries- herba noun (plant used in medicine)
Irish
1 entries- luibh noun (plant used to flavour food)
Italian
4 entries- erba noun (plant used to flavour food)
- erba noun (slang: marijuana)
- erba aromatica noun (plant used to flavour food)
- erba medicinale noun (plant used in medicine)
Japanese
3 entries- ハーブ noun (plant used to flavour food)
- 薬草 noun (plant used in medicine)
- 香草 noun (plant used to flavour food)
Kannada
1 entries- ಮೂಲಿಕೆ noun (plant used in medicine)
Khmer
1 entries- ជីរ noun (plant used to flavour food)
Korean
2 entries- 약초 noun (plant used in medicine)
- 향초 noun (plant used to flavour food)
Latin
1 entries- herba noun (plant used to flavour food)
Latvian
1 entries- garšaugs noun (plant used to flavour food)
Ligurian
1 entries- erba noun (plant used to flavour food)
Limburgish
1 entries- keukekroed noun (plant used to flavour food)
Lingala
1 entries- litíti noun (plant used to flavour food)
Lombard
1 entries- erba noun (plant used to flavour food)
Low German
1 entries- Kruut noun (plant used to flavour food)
Macedonian
1 entries- билка noun (plant used to flavour food)
Malay
2 entries- herba noun (plant used to flavour food)
- herba noun (plant used in medicine)
Malayalam
1 entries- ഓഷധി noun (plant used in medicine)
Marathi
4 entries- ओषधी noun (plant used to flavour food)
- तृणादि noun (plant used to flavour food)
- वनस्पति noun (plant used to flavour food)
- शाक noun (plant used to flavour food)
Middle English
3 entries- herbe noun (plant used to flavour food)
- herbe noun (plant used in medicine)
- wort noun (plant used in medicine)
Mongolian
1 entries- навч шилбэ noun (plant used to flavour food)
Māori
1 entries- raukakara noun (plant used to flavour food)
Norman
1 entries- hèrbe noun (plant used to flavour food)
Norwegian
1 entries- gress noun (slang: marijuana)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- urt noun (plant used to flavour food)
- urt noun (plant used in medicine)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- urt noun (plant used to flavour food)
- urt noun (plant used in medicine)
Occitan
1 entries- èrba noun (plant used to flavour food)
Odia
1 entries- ଔଷଧ noun (plant used in medicine)
Old English
3 entries- lǣċewyrt noun (plant used in medicine)
- wyrt noun (plant used to flavour food)
- wyrt noun (plant used in medicine)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- ریحان noun (plant used to flavour food)
Persian
4 entries- اسپرم noun (plant used to flavour food)
- اسپرم noun (plant used in medicine)
- گیاه noun (plant used to flavour food)
- گیاه دارویی noun (plant used in medicine)
Piedmontese
1 entries- erba noun (plant used to flavour food)
Polabian
1 entries- krüd noun (plant used to flavour food)
Polish
4 entries- zioło noun (plant used to flavour food)
- zioło noun (plant used in medicine)
- zioło noun (slang: marijuana)
- zioło lecznicze noun (plant used in medicine)
Portuguese
4 entries- erva noun (plant used to flavour food)
- erva noun (slang: marijuana)
- erva medicinal noun (plant used in medicine)
- tempero noun (plant used to flavour food)
Quechua
1 entries- qiwa noun (plant used to flavour food)
Romagnol
1 entries- erba noun (plant used to flavour food)
Romanian
1 entries- verdețuri noun (plant used to flavour food)
Russian
4 entries- расте́ние noun (plant used to flavour food)
- расте́ние noun (plant used in medicine)
- тра́вка noun (slang: marijuana)
- тра́вы noun (plant used to flavour food)
Scots
1 entries- yerb noun (plant used to flavour food)
Scottish Gaelic
4 entries- luibh noun (plant used to flavour food)
- luibh noun (plant used in medicine)
- lus noun (plant used to flavour food)
- lus noun (plant used in medicine)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- tráva noun (slang: marijuana)
- тра́ва noun (slang: marijuana)
Slovak
1 entries- bylín noun (plant used to flavour food)
Slovene
2 entries- začimba noun (plant used to flavour food)
- zelišče noun (plant used to flavour food)
Spanish
3 entries- hierba noun (slang: marijuana)
- hierba culinaria noun (plant used to flavour food)
- planta medicinal noun (plant used in medicine)
Swedish
4 entries- gräs noun (slang: marijuana)
- ört noun (plant used to flavour food)
- ört noun (plant used in medicine)
- örtkrydda noun (plant used to flavour food)
Tagalog
1 entries- damong-gamot noun (plant used to flavour food)
Tamil
1 entries- மூலிகை noun (plant used in medicine)
Telugu
1 entries- మూలిక noun (plant used in medicine)
Thai
2 entries- สมุนไพร noun (plant used to flavour food)
- สมุนไพร noun (plant used in medicine)
Turkish
4 entries- ot noun (plant used to flavour food)
- ot noun (plant used in medicine)
- ot noun (slang: marijuana)
- şifalı ot noun (plant used in medicine)
Vietnamese
3 entries- cây thảo noun (plant used to flavour food)
- cỏ noun (plant used to flavour food)
- dược thảo noun (plant used in medicine)
Volapük
2 entries- keb noun (plant used to flavour food)
- sanakeb noun (plant used in medicine)
Walloon
1 entries- yerbêye noun (plant used to flavour food)
Welsh
4 entries- llysieuyn crochan noun (plant used to flavour food)
- llysieuyn llesol noun (plant used in medicine)
- llysieuyn meddyginiaethol noun (plant used in medicine)
- llysieuyn pêr noun (plant used to flavour food)
Sample sentences
17 total sentences available.
The monk prays for an hour, while the nun boils the herb in the kitchen.
Source: tatoeba (5057468)
He had a late night snack of cheese, cashews, and German natural herb bitters.
Source: tatoeba (6589163)
A plant which is larger and hardier than a herb is called a shrub, such as: in banks and ponds, the rush, the bullrush, cask without knots, bearing cat's-tails, and the reed, which is knotty and hollow inside.
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