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118 relations: Acacia pycnantha, Aegle marmelos, Africa, Alcuin, Algae, American English, Anglo-Saxon paganism, Annual plant, Apothecary, Avicenna, Ayurveda, Azadirachta indica, Bark (botany), Basil, Biennial plant, Botany, Broth, Bush medicine, Caffeine, Cambium, Canadian English, Cannabis, Cannabis (drug), Chamomile, Charlemagne, Cherokee, China, Chinese herbology, Coca, Common Era, Coriander, Dill, English in the Commonwealth of Nations, Eucalyptus, Fern, Filipendula ulmaria, Flower, Food, Frankincense, Fruit, Fruit (plant structure), Fungus, Galen, Garnish (cooking), Green sauce, Growing season, H-dropping, Harvey Wickes Felter, Hellenistic religion, Herb farm, ... Expand index (68 more) »
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Acacia pycnantha
Acacia pycnantha, most commonly known as the golden wattle, is a tree of the family Fabaceae.
Aegle marmelos
Aegle marmelos, commonly known as bael (or bili or bhel), also Bengal quince, golden apple, Japanese bitter orange, stone apple or wood apple, is a species of tree native to the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia.
Africa
Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia.
See Herb and Africa
Alcuin
Alcuin of York (Flaccus Albinus Alcuinus; 735 – 19 May 804) – also called Ealhwine, Alhwin, or Alchoin – was a scholar, clergyman, poet, and teacher from York, Northumbria.
See Herb and Alcuin
Algae
Algae (alga) are any of a large and diverse group of photosynthetic, eukaryotic organisms.
See Herb and Algae
American English
American English (AmE), sometimes called United States English or U.S. English, is the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States.
Anglo-Saxon paganism
Anglo-Saxon paganism, sometimes termed Anglo-Saxon heathenism, Anglo-Saxon pre-Christian religion, Anglo-Saxon traditional religion, or Anglo-Saxon polytheism refers to the religious beliefs and practices followed by the Anglo-Saxons between the 5th and 8th centuries AD, during the initial period of Early Medieval England.
See Herb and Anglo-Saxon paganism
Annual plant
An annual plant is a plant that completes its life cycle, from germination to the production of seeds, within one growing season, and then dies.
Apothecary
Apothecary is an archaic English term for a medical professional who formulates and dispenses materia medica (medicine) to physicians, surgeons and patients.
Avicenna
Ibn Sina (translit; – 22 June 1037 CE), commonly known in the West as Avicenna, was a preeminent philosopher and physician of the Muslim world, flourishing during the Islamic Golden Age, serving in the courts of various Iranian rulers.
Ayurveda
Ayurveda is an alternative medicine system with historical roots in the Indian subcontinent.
Azadirachta indica
Azadirachta indica, commonly known as neem, margosa, nimtree or Indian lilac, is a tree in the mahogany family Meliaceae.
See Herb and Azadirachta indica
Bark (botany)
Bark is the outermost layer of stems and roots of woody plants.
Basil
Basil (Ocimum basilicum), also called great basil, is a culinary herb of the family Lamiaceae (mints). Herb and basil are herbs.
See Herb and Basil
Biennial plant
A biennial plant is a flowering plant that, generally in a temperate climate, takes two years to complete its biological life cycle.
Botany
Botany, also called plant science (or plant sciences), plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology.
See Herb and Botany
Broth
Broth, also known as bouillon, is a savory liquid made of water in which meat, fish, or vegetables have been simmered for a short period of time.
See Herb and Broth
Bush medicine
Bush medicine comprises traditional medicines used by Indigenous Australians, being Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Caffeine
Caffeine is a central nervous system (CNS) stimulant of the methylxanthine class.
Cambium
A cambium (cambiums or cambia), in plants, is a tissue layer that provides partially undifferentiated cells for plant growth.
See Herb and Cambium
Canadian English
Canadian English (CanE, CE, en-CA) encompasses the varieties of English used in Canada.
Cannabis
Cannabis is a genus of flowering plants in the family Cannabaceae. Herb and Cannabis are herbs.
Cannabis (drug)
Cannabis, also known as marijuana or weed, among other names, is a non-chemically uniform drug from the cannabis plant.
Chamomile
Chamomile (American English) or camomile (British English; see spelling differences) is the common name for several plants of the family Asteraceae.
Charlemagne
Charlemagne (2 April 748 – 28 January 814) was King of the Franks from 768, King of the Lombards from 774, and Emperor, of what is now known as the Carolingian Empire, from 800, holding these titles until his death in 814.
Cherokee
The Cherokee (translit, or translit) people are one of the Indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands of the United States.
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.
See Herb and China
Chinese herbology
Chinese herbology is the theory of traditional Chinese herbal therapy, which accounts for the majority of treatments in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM).
See Herb and Chinese herbology
Coca
Coca is any of the four cultivated plants in the family Erythroxylaceae, native to western South America.
See Herb and Coca
Common Era
Common Era (CE) and Before the Common Era (BCE) are year notations for the Gregorian calendar (and its predecessor, the Julian calendar), the world's most widely used calendar era.
Coriander
Coriander (Coriandrum sativum), also known as cilantro, is an annual herb in the family Apiaceae. Herb and Coriander are herbs.
Dill
Dill (Anethum graveolens) is an annual herb in the celery family Apiaceae. Herb and Dill are herbs.
See Herb and Dill
English in the Commonwealth of Nations
The use of the English language in current and former member countries of the Commonwealth of Nations was largely inherited from British colonisation, with some exceptions.
See Herb and English in the Commonwealth of Nations
Eucalyptus
Eucalyptus is a genus of more than 700 species of flowering plants in the family Myrtaceae.
Fern
The ferns (Polypodiopsida or Polypodiophyta) are a group of vascular plants (plants with xylem and phloem) that reproduce via spores and have neither seeds nor flowers.
See Herb and Fern
Filipendula ulmaria
Filipendula ulmaria, commonly known as meadowsweet or mead wort, is a perennial herbaceous plant in the family Rosaceae that grows in damp meadows. Herb and Filipendula ulmaria are herbs.
See Herb and Filipendula ulmaria
Flower
A flower, also known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants (plants of the division Angiospermae).
See Herb and Flower
Food
Food is any substance consumed by an organism for nutritional support.
See Herb and Food
Frankincense
Frankincense, also known as olibanum, is an aromatic resin used in incense and perfumes, obtained from trees of the genus Boswellia in the family Burseraceae.
Fruit
In botany, a fruit is the seed-bearing structure in flowering plants that is formed from the ovary after flowering (see Fruit anatomy).
See Herb and Fruit
Fruit (plant structure)
Fruits are the mature ovary or ovaries of one or more flowers.
See Herb and Fruit (plant structure)
Fungus
A fungus (fungi or funguses) is any member of the group of eukaryotic organisms that includes microorganisms such as yeasts and molds, as well as the more familiar mushrooms.
See Herb and Fungus
Galen
Aelius Galenus or Claudius Galenus (Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; September 129 – 216 AD), often anglicized as Galen or Galen of Pergamon, was a Roman and Greek physician, surgeon, and philosopher.
See Herb and Galen
Garnish (cooking)
A garnish is an item or substance used as a decoration or embellishment accompanying a prepared food dish or drink. Herb and garnish (cooking) are food and drink decorations.
See Herb and Garnish (cooking)
Green sauce
Green sauce or greensauce is a family of cold, uncooked sauces based on chopped herbs, including the Spanish and Italian salsa verde, the French sauce verte, the German grüne Soße or Frankfurter grie Soß (Frankfurt dialect), the British mint sauce and greensauce, and the Argentinian chimichurri.
Growing season
A season is a division of the year marked by changes in weather, ecology, and the amount of daylight.
H-dropping
H-dropping or aitch-dropping is the deletion of the voiceless glottal fricative or "H-sound",.
Harvey Wickes Felter
Harvey Wickes Felter (1865–1927) was an eclectic medicine doctor and author of Eclectic Materia Medica.
See Herb and Harvey Wickes Felter
Hellenistic religion
The concept of Hellenistic religion as the late form of Ancient Greek religion covers any of the various systems of beliefs and practices of the people who lived under the influence of ancient Greek culture during the Hellenistic period and the Roman Empire (300 BCE to 300 CE).
See Herb and Hellenistic religion
Herb farm
A herb farm is usually a farm where herbs are grown for market sale. Herb and herb farm are herbs.
Herbaceous plant
Herbaceous plants are vascular plants that have no persistent woody stems above ground.
Herbal medicine
Herbal medicine (also called herbalism, phytomedicine or phytotherapy) is the study of pharmacognosy and the use of medicinal plants, which are a basis of traditional medicine.
Herbal tea
Herbal teas, also known as herbal infusions and less commonly called tisanes (UK and US, US also), are beverages made from the infusion or decoction of herbs, spices, or other plant material in hot water; they do not usually contain any true tea (Camellia sinensis). Herb and herbal tea are herbs.
Hinduism
Hinduism is an Indian religion or dharma, a religious and universal order by which its followers abide.
Hippocrates
Hippocrates of Kos (Hippokrátēs ho Kôios), also known as Hippocrates II, was a Greek physician and philosopher of the classical period who is considered one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine.
Holocene
The Holocene is the current geological epoch, beginning approximately 11,700 years ago.
Humorism
Humorism, the humoral theory, or humoralism, was a system of medicine detailing a supposed makeup and workings of the human body, adopted by Ancient Greek and Roman physicians and philosophers.
Hypericum perforatum
Hypericum perforatum, commonly known as St John's wort (sometimes perforate St John's wort or common St John's wort), is a flowering plant in the family Hypericaceae. Herb and Hypericum perforatum are herbs.
See Herb and Hypericum perforatum
John Milton Scudder
John Milton Scudder (September 8, 1829 – February 17, 1894) was an American physician and practitioner of eclectic medicine.
See Herb and John Milton Scudder
John Uri Lloyd
John Uri Lloyd (April 19, 1849 in West Bloomfield, New York in Who's Who in America (1901-1902 edition); p. 691; via archive.org – April 9, 1936) was an American pharmacist and leader of the eclectic medicine movement who was influential in the development of pharmacognosy, ethnobotany, economic botany, and herbalism.
Kava
Kava or kava kava (Piper methysticum: Latin 'pepper' and Latinized Greek 'intoxicating') is a crop of the Pacific Islands.
See Herb and Kava
Lamiaceae
The Lamiaceae or Labiatae are a family of flowering plants commonly known as the mint, deadnettle, or sage family.
Latin
Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.
See Herb and Latin
Laurus nobilis
Laurus nobilis is an aromatic evergreen tree or large shrub with green, glabrous (smooth) leaves. Herb and Laurus nobilis are herbs.
Lavandula
Lavandula (common name lavender) is a genus of 47 known species of perennial flowering plants in the mints family, Lamiaceae. Herb and Lavandula are herbs.
Leaf
A leaf (leaves) is a principal appendage of the stem of a vascular plant, usually borne laterally aboveground and specialized for photosynthesis.
See Herb and Leaf
Leaf vegetable
Leaf vegetables, also called leafy greens, pot herbs, vegetable greens, or simply greens, are plant leaves eaten as a vegetable, sometimes accompanied by tender petioles and shoots.
Liana
A liana is a long-stemmed woody vine that is rooted in the soil at ground level and uses trees, as well as other means of vertical support, to climb up to the canopy in search of direct sunlight.
See Herb and Liana
Lichen
A lichen is a symbiosis of algae or cyanobacteria living among filaments of multiple fungi species, along with a yeast embedded in the cortex or "skin", in a mutualistic relationship.
See Herb and Lichen
List of plants known as cedar
Cedar is part of the English common name of many trees and other plants, particularly those of the genus Cedrus.
See Herb and List of plants known as cedar
Medicinal plants
Medicinal plants, also called medicinal herbs, have been discovered and used in traditional medicine practices since prehistoric times.
Mentha australis
Mentha australis is known by the common names of river mint, native mint, native peppermint, and Australian mint. Herb and Mentha australis are herbs.
Mezzaluna
A mezzaluna is a knife consisting of one or more curved blades with a handle on each end, which is rocked back and forth chopping the ingredients below with each movement.
Mint herbal tea
Mint tea is a herbal tea made by infusing mint leaves in hot water.
Moss
Mosses are small, non-vascular flowerless plants in the taxonomic division Bryophyta sensu stricto.
See Herb and Moss
Myrrh
Myrrh (from an unidentified ancient Semitic language, see § Etymology) is a gum-resin extracted from a few small, thorny tree species of the Commiphora genus, belonging to the Burseraceae family.
See Herb and Myrrh
Nicholas Culpeper
Nicholas Culpeper (18 October 1616 – 10 January 1654) was an English botanist, herbalist, physician and astrologer.
See Herb and Nicholas Culpeper
Nine Herbs Charm
The Nine Herbs Charm, Nigon Wyrta Galdor, Lay of the Nine Healing Herbs, or Nine Wort Spell (among other names) is an Old English charm recorded in the tenth century CE.
Nutrient
A nutrient is a substance used by an organism to survive, grow and reproduce.
Ocimum tenuiflorum
Ocimum tenuiflorum, commonly known as holy basil or tulsi or tulasi, is an aromatic perennial plant in the family Lamiaceae. Herb and Ocimum tenuiflorum are herbs.
See Herb and Ocimum tenuiflorum
Oregano
Oregano (Origanum vulgare) is a species of flowering plant in the mint family Lamiaceae. Herb and Oregano are herbs.
See Herb and Oregano
Outline of herbs and spices
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to herbs and spices.
See Herb and Outline of herbs and spices
Paracelsus
Paracelsus (1493 – 24 September 1541), born Theophrastus von Hohenheim (full name Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim), was a Swiss physician, alchemist, lay theologian, and philosopher of the German Renaissance.
Parsley
Parsley, or garden parsley (Petroselinum crispum) is a species of flowering plant in the family Apiaceae that is native to Greece, Morocco and the former Yugoslavia. Herb and parsley are herbs.
See Herb and Parsley
Partition chromatography
Partition chromatography theory and practice was introduced through the work and publications of Archer Martin and Richard Laurence Millington Synge during the 1940s.
See Herb and Partition chromatography
Perennial
In botany, a perennial plant or simply perennial is a plant that lives more than two years.
Peru
Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pacific Ocean. Peru is a megadiverse country with habitats ranging from the arid plains of the Pacific coastal region in the west to the peaks of the Andes mountains extending from the north to the southeast of the country to the tropical Amazon basin rainforest in the east with the Amazon River.
See Herb and Peru
Physic garden
A physic garden is a type of herb garden with medicinal plants.
Phytochemical
Phytochemicals are chemical compounds produced by plants, generally to help them resist fungi, bacteria and plant virus infections, and also consumption by insects and other animals.
Prehistoric medicine
Prehistoric medicine is any use of medicine from before the invention of writing and the documented history of medicine.
See Herb and Prehistoric medicine
Rastafari
Rastafari, sometimes called Rastafarianism, is an Abrahamic religion that developed in Jamaica during the 1930s.
Religion
Religion is a range of social-cultural systems, including designated behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that generally relate humanity to supernatural, transcendental, and spiritual elements—although there is no scholarly consensus over what precisely constitutes a religion.
Resin
In polymer chemistry and materials science, a resin is a solid or highly viscous substance of plant or synthetic origin that is typically convertible into polymers.
See Herb and Resin
Root
In vascular plants, the roots are the organs of a plant that are modified to provide anchorage for the plant and take in water and nutrients into the plant body, which allows plants to grow taller and faster.
See Herb and Root
Rosemary
Salvia rosmarinus, commonly known as rosemary, is a shrub with fragrant, evergreen, needle-like leaves and white, pink, purple, or blue flowers. Herb and rosemary are herbs.
Salvia
Salvia is the largest genus of plants in the sage family Lamiaceae, with nearly 1000 species of shrubs, herbaceous perennials, and annuals. Herb and Salvia are herbs.
See Herb and Salvia
Salvia apiana
Salvia apiana, the Californian white sage, bee sage, or sacred sage is an evergreen perennial shrub that is native to the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, found mainly in the coastal sage scrub habitat of Southern California and Baja California, on the western edges of the Mojave and Sonoran deserts.
Salvia officinalis
Salvia officinalis, the common sage or sage, is a perennial, evergreen subshrub, with woody stems, grayish leaves, and blue to purplish flowers. Herb and Salvia officinalis are herbs.
See Herb and Salvia officinalis
Seed
In botany, a seed is a plant embryo and food reserve enclosed in a protective outer covering called a seed coat (testa).
See Herb and Seed
Seed plant
A seed plant or spermatophyte, also known as a phanerogam (taxon Phanerogamae) or a phaenogam (taxon Phaenogamae), is any plant that produces seeds.
Selective breeding
Selective breeding (also called artificial selection) is the process by which humans use animal breeding and plant breeding to selectively develop particular phenotypic traits (characteristics) by choosing which typically animal or plant males and females will sexually reproduce and have offspring together.
See Herb and Selective breeding
Shamanism
Shamanism or samanism is a religious practice that involves a practitioner (shaman or saman) interacting with the spirit world through altered states of consciousness, such as trance.
Shrub
A shrub or bush is a small-to-medium-sized perennial woody plant.
See Herb and Shrub
Siberia
Siberia (Sibir') is an extensive geographical region comprising all of North Asia, from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east.
See Herb and Siberia
Smudging
Smudging, or other rites involving the burning of sacred herbs (e.g., white sage) or resins, is a ceremony practiced by some Indigenous peoples of the Americas. Herb and Smudging are herbs.
Spice
In the culinary arts, a spice is any seed, fruit, root, bark, or other plant substance in a form primarily used for flavoring or coloring food.
See Herb and Spice
Sumer
Sumer is the earliest known civilization, located in the historical region of southern Mesopotamia (now south-central Iraq), emerging during the Chalcolithic and early Bronze Ages between the sixth and fifth millennium BC.
See Herb and Sumer
Tannin
Tannins (or tannoids) are a class of astringent, polyphenolic biomolecules that bind to and precipitate proteins and various other organic compounds including amino acids and alkaloids.
See Herb and Tannin
Taste
The gustatory system or sense of taste is the sensory system that is partially responsible for the perception of taste (flavor).
See Herb and Taste
The Forme of Cury
The Forme of Cury (The Method of Cooking, cury from Old French queuerie, "cookery") is an extensive 14th-century collection of medieval English recipes.
See Herb and The Forme of Cury
Theophrastus
Theophrastus (Θεόφραστος||godly phrased) was a Greek philosopher and the successor to Aristotle in the Peripatetic school.
Thyme
Thyme is a culinary herb consisting of the dried aerial parts of some members of the genus Thymus of flowering plants in the mint family Lamiaceae. Herb and Thyme are herbs.
See Herb and Thyme
Tree
In botany, a tree is a perennial plant with an elongated stem, or trunk, usually supporting branches and leaves.
See Herb and Tree
Turmeric
Turmeric, (botanical name Curcuma longa) is a flowering plant in the ginger family Zingiberaceae.
Vascular cambium
The vascular cambium is the main growth tissue in the stems and roots of many plants, specifically in dicots such as buttercups and oak trees, gymnosperms such as pine trees, as well as in certain other vascular plants.
Vegetable
Vegetables are parts of plants that are consumed by humans or other animals as food.
Vision quest
A vision quest is a rite of passage in some Native American cultures.
Wicca
Wicca, also known as "The Craft", is a modern pagan, syncretic, earth-centered religion.
See Herb and Wicca
See also
Food and drink decorations
- Cake decorating
- Chili thread
- Confetti candy
- Cookie decorating
- Cricut
- Edible ink printing
- Egg garnish
- Egg puffs and soup pearls
- Food presentation
- Garnish (cooking)
- Gingerbread house
- Gomul
- Hagelslag
- Herb
- Huamo
- Jack-o'-lantern
- Manchette (cuisine)
- Miniature food
- Mukimono
- Night of the Radishes
- Ristra
- Sautéed mushrooms
- Sprinkles
- Vark
- Vegetable carving
- Wedding cake topper
References
Also known as Culinary herb, Dried herbs, Herbs.