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kitchen herb

kitchen herb noun: any herb grown for culinary use; a potherb.

Noun

kitchen herb (plural kitchen herbs)

  1. Any herb grown for culinary use; a potherb.
    • In the monastic colloquy, an exercise for students, who were to be "bilingues," capable of conversing in their own language and in that of Rome, which is, therefore, quite destitute of artifice or ambition, a boy is asked what he has to eat. His reply is, worts (that is, kitchen herbs), fish...1865, Oswald Cockayne, Leechdoms, Wortcunning, and Starcraft or Early England, volume II, London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, page xi

Forms of kitchen herb

pluralkitchen herbs

Questions about kitchen herb

What does kitchen herb mean?
Kitchen herb means any herb grown for culinary use; a potherb.
What part of speech is kitchen herb?
Kitchen herb is a noun.
What is the plural of kitchen herb?
The plural of kitchen herb is kitchen herbs.

Words near kitchen herb in the dictionary

  1. Kitchen English
  2. kitchen garden
  3. kitchen gardens
  4. kitchen hand
  5. kitchen hands
  6. kitchen herb
  7. kitchen herbs
  8. kitchen hood
  9. kitchen hoods
  10. kitchen island
  11. kitchen islands

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