herb

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Because of its bright yellow blossoms, this herb is also named

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  1. noun A plant whose stem does not produce woody, persistent tissue and generally dies back at the end of each growing season.
  2. noun Any of various often aromatic plants used especially in medicine or as seasoning.
  3. noun Slang Marijuana.
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  1. Middle English herbe, from Old French erbe, from Latin herba.

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  1. The initial h, as reg. in words coming from L. through Old French, was silent in Middle English and is properly silent in modern English, but is now sometimes pronounced, in conformity to herbaceous, herbarium, and other forms in which the h is properly pronounced, as being recently taken from the L.; early modern English also hearbe, erbe (cf. modern English dial. arb, yarb), from Middle English herbe, pronounced and often spelled erbe, from Old French herbe, ierbe, erbe, French herbe = Provencal herba, erba = Spanish yerba = Portuguese herva, erva = Italian erba, from Latin herba, grass, green stalks or blades, herbage, an herb; supposed, without much probability, to be connected with Old Latin forbea, food, Greek φορβή pasture, fodder, forage, from φέρβειν, feed.
 

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