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herbal

herbal

68 3.7
Made from plants people use for medicine or cooking
  • adjective
  • /ˈhɜrbəl/
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  • I enjoy drinking herbal tea before bedtime to help me relax.
  • herbal medicine
  • herbal remedy
  • herbal tea

They're all beautiful, the best hard herbal candies for cold weather cough and sore throat.

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Examples

  • Anyone here who you know takes herbal supplements, Chinese herbs, Western herbs?

  • A careful evaluation of any prescribed medications, over-the-counter products, or herbal remedies is necessary.

    Academic text (2006)
  • There must be some herbal tea up there.

  • Listen, that herbal cream should help.

  • Doctor has brought some... herbal medicine.

  • But when I walk into these like natural herbal shops, I just get so absorbed in it.

  • I could really use some sort of herbal refreshment.

  • Old Grandmother would make an herbal drink for her that would take away the cramps.

    Fiction book (1992)
  • Her past medical history was significant for the use of Chinese herbal medicinal patches for over twenty years.

    Academic text (2007)
  • You can buy all kinds of medicinal herbal teas in the marketplace.

    Fiction book (1995)

Synonyms

herby
vsherbal
3.7

Having the taste or smell of herbs such as basil and mint

describes things made from or relating to herbs for culinary or medicinal use

Compounds

17 1.3

A hot drink made from herbs or other plants, not tea leaves

herbal medicine
  • Specialized
2 3.3

A way of treating people using plants to prevent or cure illness

herbal therapy
  • Specialized
4.2

A treatment that uses parts of plants to help prevent or treat illness

A soft cream made from herbs that soothes skin and helps it heal

A mix made from herbs to help health and ease sickness

A plant preparation used to prevent or treat illness and improve health

Surface Forms

herbal positive

Morphology

herbal = herb (transparent) = herb + al

The adjective is a regular derivation from 'herb' with the suffix '-al', so the meaning is directly recoverable.

Etymology

Herbal comes from the common word herb, from the Latin herba meaning 'plant' or 'grass'. So herbal means 'made from or about herbs', which is why we use it for plant medicines and teas.