The difference between Herb and Weed

When used as nouns, herb means any green, leafy plant, or parts thereof, used to flavour or season food, whereas weed means any plant regarded as unwanted at the place where, and at the time when it is growing.

Weed is also verb with the meaning: to remove unwanted vegetation from a cultivated area.

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  1. Herb as a noun (countable):

    Any green, leafy plant, or parts thereof, used to flavour or season food.

  2. Herb as a noun (countable):

    A plant whose roots, leaves or seeds, etc. are used in medicine.

    Examples:

    "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. Herb as a noun (uncountable, slang, euphemistic):

    Marijuana.

  4. Herb as a noun (countable, botany):

    A plant whose stem is not woody and does not persist beyond each growing season

  5. Herb as a noun (uncountable, obsolete):

    Grass; herbage.

  1. Weed as a noun (countable):

    Any plant regarded as unwanted at the place where, and at the time when it is growing.

    Examples:

    "If it isn't in a straight line or marked with a label, it's a weed."

  2. Weed as a noun:

    Short for duckweed.

  3. Weed as a noun (uncountable, archaic, or, obsolete):

    Underbrush; low shrubs.

  4. Weed as a noun (uncountable, slang):

    A drug or the like made from the leaves of a plant. Cannabis. Tobacco. A cigar.

  5. Weed as a noun (countable):

    A weak horse, which is therefore unfit to breed from.

  6. Weed as a noun (countable, British, informal):

    A puny person; one who has little physical strength.

  7. Weed as a noun (countable, figuratively):

    Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.

  1. Weed as a verb:

    To remove unwanted vegetation from a cultivated area.

    Examples:

    "I weeded my flower bed."

  1. Weed as a noun (archaic):

    A garment or piece of clothing.

  2. Weed as a noun (archaic):

    Clothing collectively; clothes, dress.

  3. Weed as a noun (archaic):

    An article of dress worn in token of grief; a mourning garment or badge.

  4. Weed as a noun (archaic, especially, in the plural, _, as "widow's weeds"):

    (Female) mourning apparel.

    Examples:

    "He wore a weed on his hat."

  1. Weed as a noun (countable, Scotland):

    A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which befalls those who are about to give birth, are giving birth, or have recently given birth or miscarried or aborted.

  1. Weed as a verb:

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