| HERBALISM | • herbalism n. The use or study of medicinal herbs. • herbalism n. (Obsolete) Botany, the study of plants in general. • HERBALISM n. the practice of herbal medicine. |
| HERBALIST | • herbalist n. A person who treats diseases by means of medicinal herbs. • HERBALIST n. a person who practises herbalism, also HERBIST. |
| HERBARIAL | • herbarial adj. Relating to a herbarium. • HERBARIAL adj. relating to a herbarium, a collection of preserved plants and herbs. |
| HERBARIAN | • herbarian n. (Archaic) A herbalist. • HERBARIAN n. a herbalist. |
| HERBARIES | • herbaries n. Plural of herbary. • HERBARY n. a garden of herbs. |
| HERBARIUM | • herbarium n. A collection of dried plants or parts of plants. • herbarium n. A building or institution where such a collection is kept. • HERBARIUM n. a collection of preserved plants and herbs. |
| HERBELETS | • herbelets n. Plural of herbelet. • HERBELET n. (Shakespeare) a small herb, also HERBLET. |
| HERBICIDE | • herbicide n. A substance used to kill plants. • HERBICIDE n. a weedkiller. |
| HERBIVORA | • Herbivora prop.n. (Archaic) An informal grouping of the plant-eating mammals. • Herbivora prop.n. (Obsolete) A former grouping of mammals that included non-marsupial flesh-eaters. • HERBIVORA n. an extensive division of Mammalia, comprising animals that feed almost exclusively upon vegetation. |
| HERBIVORE | • herbivore n. An organism that feeds chiefly on plants; an animal that feeds on herbage or vegetation as the main part of its diet. • HERBIVORE n. an organism that eats plants or other autotrophic organisms. |
| HERBIVORY | • herbivory n. (Ecology) The consumption of living plant tissue by animals. • HERBIVORY n. the eating of grass. |
| HERBOLOGY | • herbology n. The study of herbs and their medical properties, especially when combined. • HERBOLOGY n. the use or study of herbal medicine. |
| HERBORISE | • herborise v. Alternative form of herborize. • HERBORISE v. to search for plants, or new species of plants, with a view to classifying them, also HERBORIZE. |
| HERBORIST | • herborist n. (Dated) A herbalist. • HERBORIST n. a herbalist. |
| HERBORIZE | • herborize v. (Intransitive, botany) To seek and classify new or previously known plant species. • herborize v. (Transitive) To form plant-like figures in (Minerals, etc.). • HERBORIZE v. to search for plants, or new species of plants, with a view to classifying them, also HERBORISE. |
| SHERBERTS | • sherberts n. Plural of sherbert. • Sherberts prop.n. Plural of Sherbert. • SHERBERT n. (Arabic) a frozen fruit-flavored mixture, also SHERBET. |
| THERBLIGS | • therbligs n. Plural of therblig. • THERBLIG n. a unit of work for quantifying industrial operations. |