Herb vs. Weed — What's the Difference?

Any of various often aromatic plants used especially in medicine or as seasoning.

A weed is a plant considered undesirable in a particular situation, "a plant in the wrong place". Examples commonly are plants unwanted in human-controlled settings, such as farm fields, gardens, lawns, and parks.

In general use, herbs are a widely distributed and widespread group of plants with savory or aromatic properties that are used for flavoring and garnishing food, for medicinal purposes, or for fragrances; excluding vegetables and other plants consumed for macronutrients. Culinary use typically distinguishes herbs from spices.

A plant considered undesirable, unattractive, or troublesome, especially one that grows where it is not wanted and often grows or spreads fast or takes the place of desired plants.

A plant whose stem does not produce woody, persistent tissue and generally dies back at the end of each growing season.

An aquatic plant or alga, especially seaweed.

(Slang) Marijuana.

Something considered useless, detrimental, or worthless.

(countable) Any green, leafy plant, or parts thereof, used to flavour or season food.

Tobacco.

(countable) A plant whose roots, leaves or seeds, etc. are used in medicine.

A cigarette.

Cannabis.

Marijuana.

A plant whose stem is not woody and does not persist beyond each growing season

A token of mourning, as a black band worn on a man's hat or sleeve.

Grass; herbage.

Weeds The black mourning clothes of a widow.

A lame or uncool person.

Often weeds(Archaic) An article of clothing; a garment.

A plant whose stem does not become woody and permanent, but dies, at least down to the ground, after flowering.

To clear of weeds

Grass; herbage.

To remove (weeds). Often used with out

A plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests

To eliminate as unsuitable or unwanted. Often used with out

Aromatic potherb used in cookery for its savory qualities

To remove weeds.

(countable) Any plant unwanted at the place where and at the time when it is growing.

Underbrush; low shrubs.

A drug or the like made from the leaves of a plant.

Cannabis.

Tobacco.

A cigar.

(countable) A weak horse, which is therefore unfit to breed from.

A puny person; one who has little physical strength.

Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.

(archaic) A garment or piece of clothing.

(archaic) Clothing collectively; clothes, dress.

(archaic) An article of dress worn in token of grief; a mourning garment or badge.

(archaic) Especially in the plural as widow's weeds: (female) mourning apparel.

(Scotland) A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which befalls those who are about to give birth, are giving birth, or have recently given birth or miscarried or aborted.

(Scotland) Lymphangitis in a horse.

To remove unwanted vegetation from a cultivated area.

(figurative) To pilfer the best items from a collection.

(library science) To systematically remove materials from a library collection based on a set of criteria.

Simple past tense and past participle of wee

A garment; clothing; especially, an upper or outer garment.

An article of dress worn in token of grief; a mourning garment or badge; as, he wore a weed on his hat; especially, in the plural, mourning garb, as of a woman; as, a widow's weeds.

A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which attacks women in childbed.

Underbrush; low shrubs.

Any plant growing in cultivated ground to the injury of the crop or desired vegetation, or to the disfigurement of the place; an unsightly, useless, or injurious plant.

Fig.: Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.

An animal unfit to breed from.

Tobacco, or a cigar.

To free from noxious plants; to clear of weeds; as, to weed corn or onions; to weed a garden.

To take away, as noxious plants; to remove, as something hurtful; to extirpate; - commonly used with out; as, to weed out inefficiency from an enterprise.

To free from anything hurtful or offensive.

To reject as unfit for breeding purposes.

Any plant that crowds out cultivated plants

Street names for marijuana

Clear of weeds;