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potherb

n. Any plant whose leaves, stems or flowers may be used as a culinary herb.

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potherb

n. any of various herbaceous plants whose leaves or stems or flowers are cooked and used for food or seasoning

Usage examples of "potherb".

The backbone, and the winglets and odds-and-ends went for stock, with white wine and potherbs and coriander: there has to be a stock you can really jump up and down on.

Flocks and fleeces, crops and granaries, leeks and potherbs, drink and goblets, are nowadays the reading and study of the monks, except a few elect ones, in whom lingers not the image but some slight vestige of the fathers that preceded them.

Chalcie ignored him, though her hands were white around the potherbs she had gathered.

Roman people, where they assembled to enact their laws, and elect their magistrates, is now enclosed for the cultivation of potherbs, or thrown open for the reception of swine and buffaloes.

France can take an old Palm Beach suit and a handful of potherbs and, mingling these together according to her own peculiar system, turn out a ragout fit for a king.

Both this and the Crow Garlic have, however, occasionally been employed as potherbs or for flavouring.