Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A plant whose leaves, stems, or flowers are cooked and eaten or used as seasoning.
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- noun Any
plant whoseleaves ,stems orflowers may be used as aculinary herb .
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- noun any of various herbaceous plants whose leaves or stems or flowers are cooked and used for food or seasoning
Etymologies
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Examples
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The species name, oleracea is Latin, meaning "potherb."
Brigitte Mars: Purslane: Gandhi's Favorite Food May Be a Weed in Your Yard 2010
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The plant is also good for bug bites, burns (including sunburn) and is eaten as a potherb in the spring.
How to Treat (and Avoid) Poison Ivy and Other Toxic Plants 2006
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The plant is also good for bug bites, burns (including sunburn) and is eaten as a potherb in the spring.
How to Treat (and Avoid) Poison Ivy and Other Toxic Plants 2006
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Through the widest of this meadow ran a clear stream winding down to the lake, and on a little knoll beside a lap of the said stream, two bow-shots from the water, was a knoll, whereon stood, amidst of a potherb garden,
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MALABAR SPINACH (Basella alba, B. rubra) is a very succulent vine grown throughout the tropics for the young leaves and stems, often used as a potherb.
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Common purslane (Portulaca oleracea) is also used as a potherb and in salads and soups.
Chapter 7 1990
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_ -- More popular than the use of the foliage as a potherb and a salad is the employment of borage blossoms and the tender upper leaves, in company or not with those of nasturtium, as a garnish or an ornament to salads, and still more as an addition to various cooling drinks.
Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses M. G. Kains
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In fields here, a wild strong smelling Umbellifera occurs, called _Dhunnea_, used as a potherb, and esteemed very fragrant by the natives.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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The other articles that should not be offered at Sraddhas are the flesh of the domesticated hog, the meat of all animals not slaughtered at sacrifices, Nigella sativa, salt of the variety called Vid, the potherb that is called Sitapaki, all sprouts
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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This idea seems to gain support also from the fact that certain Eastern peoples, whom modern civilization declares to have uneducated tastes, still employ many herbs which have dropped by the wayside of progress, or like the caraway and the redoubtable "pusley," an anciently popular potherb, are but known in western lands as troublesome weeds.
Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses M. G. Kains
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