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noun

Herb n.

A plant whose stem does not become woody and permanent, but dies, at least down to the ground, after flowering. Note: Annual herbs live but one season; biennial herbs flower the second season, and then die; perennial herbs produce new stems year after year.

Grass; herbage. "And flocks Grazing the tender herb."

Herb bennet. (Bot.) See Bennet.

Herb Christopher (Bot.), an herb (Actaea spicata), whose root is used in nervous diseases; the baneberry. The name is occasionally given to other plants, as the royal fern, the wood betony, etc.

Herb Gerard (Bot.), the goutweed; so called in honor of St. Gerard, who used to be invoked against the gout.

Herb grace, or Herb of grace. (Bot.) See Rue.

Herb Margaret (Bot.), the daisy. See Marguerite.

Herb Paris (Bot.), an Old World plant related to the trillium (Paris quadrifolia), commonly reputed poisonous.

Herb Robert (Bot.), a species of Geranium (Geranium Robertianum.)

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"Herb robert" Quotes from Famous Books

... me and has been ever since I can remember. From days when the batch of us went-out-walking with the Nurses, and the round moss-edged holes in the roots of gnarled trees in the hedges, and the red leaves of Herb Robert in autumn, and all the inexhaustible wealth of hedges and ditches and fields, and the Shroggs, and the brooks, were happiness of the keenest kind—to now when it is as fresh and strong as ever; it has been a pleasure which has balanced an immense lot of physical pain, ...

— Juliana Horatia Ewing And Her Books • Horatia K. F. Eden