What does the term "herb" mean?

Question

what does it mean ? i have no clue and i hear it all the time

Answer 1

if your hearing it like i think your hearing it, its another word for marijuana/pot. marijuana is a form of herb(plants that are used for good things like medicine), so people think when they say 'herb' it sounds un-drug like and better than marijuana

Answer 2

In a culinary sense, an herb refers to a plant used, generally in small amounts, to flavor a dish.  

Examples of herbs are parsley, cilantro, thyme and basil.  

Herbs come from the leaves of a plant, differentiated from spices (such as pepper, cinnamon or ginger) that come from seeds, berries, bark, roots, etc.

Answer 3

If it`s not the plant to flavour food it`s one of these. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.ph...

Answer 4

–noun

1. a flowering plant whose stem above ground does not become woody.

2. such a plant when valued for its medicinal properties, flavor, scent, or the like.

3. Often, the herb. Slang. marijuana.

4. Archaic. herbage.

—Idiom

5. give it the herbs, Australian Slang. to use full power, esp. in accelerating a car.