Català > herba: 5 sentits > nom 1, plant| Sentit | A plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests. |
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| Sinònims | herbàcia, planta herbàcia |
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| Parts | hortalissa, llegum, verdura | edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant |
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| Específic | Anthemis nobilis, camamilla, chamaemelum nobilis | Eurasian plant with apple-scented foliage and white-rayed flowers and feathery leaves used medicinally |
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| Anthyllis vulneraria | perennial Eurasian herb having heads of red or yellow flowers and common in meadows and pastures |
| Apium graveolens | herb of Europe and temperate Asia |
| Armoracia rusticana, rave rustica | coarse Eurasian plant cultivated for its thick white pungent root |
| Atropa belladonna, belladona | perennial Eurasian herb with reddish bell-shaped flowers and shining black berries |
| Ballota nigra | ill-smelling European herb with rugose leaves and whorls of dark purple flowers |
| Catharanthus roseus | commonly cultivated Old World woody herb having large pinkish to red flowers |
| Chrysanthemum cinerariifolium, piretre, Tanacetum cinerariifolium | white-flowered pyrethrum of Balkan area whose pinnate leaves are white and silky-hairy below |
| Columbo | Any of various tall perennial herbs constituting the genus Frasera |
| Curcuma longa, curcuma, cúrcuma | Widely cultivated tropical plant of India having yellow flowers and a large aromatic deep yellow rhizome |
| Echium vulgare | A coarse prickly European weed with spikes of blue flowers |
| Fumaria officinalis | Delicate European herb with greyish leaves and spikes of purplish flowers |
| Galega officinalis | tall bushy European perennial grown for its pinnate foliage and slender spikes of blue flowers |
| Hyoscyamus niger, jusquiam, jusquiam negre | poisonous fetid Old World herb having sticky hairy leaves and yellow-brown flowers |
| Matricaria chamomilla, Matricaria recutita | annual Eurasian herb similar in fragrance and medicinal uses to chamomile though taste is more bitter and effect is considered inferior |
| Melissa officinalis | bushy perennial Old World mint having small white or yellowish flowers and fragrant lemon-flavored leaves |
| Petasites hybridus | small Eurasian herb having broad leaves and lilac-pink rayless flowers |
| Sisymbrium officinale | stiffly branching Old World annual with pale yellow flowers |
| abelmoschus esculentus, Abelmoschus esculentus, ocra | tall coarse annual of Old World tropics widely cultivated in southern United States and West Indies for its long mucilaginous green pods used as basis for soups and stews |
| acant | Any plant of the genus Acanthus having large spiny leaves and spikes or white or purplish flowers |
| achillea, aquil·lea | Any of several plants of the genus Achillea native to Europe and having small white flowers in flat-topped flower heads |
| agrimonia | A plant of the genus Agrimonia having spikelike clusters of small yellow flowers |
| albergínia, alberginiera, solanum melongena, Solanum melongena | hairy upright herb native to southeastern Asia but widely cultivated for its large glossy edible fruit commonly used as a vegetable |
| alecost | tansy-scented Eurasian perennial herb with buttonlike yellow flowers |
| alegria, sèsam, sesamum indicum, Sesamum indicum | East Indian annual erect herb |
| alfàbrega | Any of several Old World tropical aromatic annual or perennial herbs of the genus Ocimum |
| amarant | Any of various plants of the genus Amaranthus having dense plumes of green or red flowers |
| anagall | Any of several plants of the genus Anagallis |
| ananas comosus, ananàs, pinya | A tropical American plant bearing a large fleshy edible fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves |
| anchusa | Any of various Old World herbs of the genus Anchusa having one-sided clusters of trumpet-shaped flowers |
| anethum graveolens, Anethum graveolens, anet, fonoll pudent | aromatic Old World herb having aromatic threadlike foliage and seeds used as seasoning |
| angèlica, angelique, Angelique | Any of various tall and stout herbs of the genus Angelica having pinnately compound leaves and small white or greenish flowers in compound umbels |
| anís, matafaluga, pimpinella anisum, Pimpinella anisum | Native to Egypt but cultivated widely for its aromatic seeds and the oil from them used medicinally and as a flavoring in cookery |
| api | Widely cultivated herb with aromatic leaf stalks that are eaten raw or cooked |
| api bord, levisticum officinale | herb native to southern Europe |
| api nap | Grown for its thickened edible aromatic root |
| argemone | Any plant of the genus Argemone having large white or yellow flowers and prickly leaves and stems and pods |
| arum | Any plant of the family Araceae |
| asclepiadàcia | Any of numerous plants of the genus Asclepias having milky juice and pods that split open releasing seeds with downy tufts |
| asclepiadàcia | Any plant of the family Asclepiadaceae |
| aspidistra elatio, aspidistra | evergreen perennial with large handsome basal leaves |
| astilbe | Any plant of the genus Astilbe having compound leaves and showy panicles of tiny colorful flowers |
| astrància, astrantia, masterwort | Any plant of the genus Astrantia |
| ayapana | Low spreading tropical American shrub with long slender leaves used to make a mildly stimulating drink resembling tea |
| banana, plàtan | Any of several tropical and subtropical treelike herbs of the genus Musa having a terminal crown of large entire leaves and usually bearing hanging clusters of elongated fruits |
| barrenwort | Slow-growing creeping plant with semi-evergreen leaves on erect wiry stems |
| bedstraw | Any of several plants of the genus Galium |
| bergenia | Any plant of the genus Bergenia |
| blenera, candelera | Any of various plants of the genus Verbascum having large usually woolly leaves and terminal spikes of yellow or white or purplish flowers |
| borago officinalis, Borago officinalis, borratja, tailwort | hairy blue-flowered European annual herb long used in herbal medicine and eaten raw as salad greens or cooked like spinach |
| breakstone, saxifraga | Any of various plants of the genus Saxifraga |
| calamint | perennial aromatic herbs growing in hedgerows or scrub or open woodlands from western Europe to central Asia and in North America |
| campanula | Any of various plants of the genus Campanula having blue or white bell-shaped flowers |
| canonge, colitx | A plant of the genus Valerianella |
| carda, teasle, teazel | Any of several herbs of the genus Dipsacus native to the Old World having flower heads surrounded by spiny bracts |
| cardamom, elettaria cardamomum | rhizomatous herb of India having aromatic seeds used as seasoning |
| cartam, càrtam, carthamus tinctorius, Carthamus tinctorius | thistlelike Eurasian plant widely grown for its red or orange flower heads and seeds that yield a valuable oil |
| carum carvi, Carum carvi, comí de prat | A Eurasian plant with small white flowers yielding caraway seed |
| catmint, catnip, Nepeta cataria | hairy aromatic perennial herb having whorls of small white purple-spotted flowers in a terminal spike |
| celiandre, coriandre, coriandrum sativum, Coriandrum sativum | Old World herb with aromatic leaves and seed resembling parsley |
| cerfull | aromatic annual Old World herb cultivated for its finely divided and often curly leaves for use especially in soups and salads |
| chaenactis | Any of several United States plants having long stalks of funnel-shaped white or yellow flowers |
| cichorium intybus, Cichorium intybus, xicoira | perennial Old World herb having rayed flower heads with blue florets cultivated for its root and its heads of crisp edible leaves used in salads |
| cleome | Any of various often strong-smelling plants of the genus Cleome having showy spider-shaped flowers |
| coleus | Any of various Old World tropical plants of the genus Coleus having multicolored decorative leaves and spikes of blue flowers |
| comí, Cuminum cyminum | Dwarf Mediterranean annual long cultivated for its aromatic seeds |
| consolda, cumfrey | perennial herbs of Europe and Iran |
| coreopsis | Any of numerous plants of the genus Coreopsis having a profusion of showy usually yellow daisylike flowers over long periods |
| crotalaria | Any of various plants of the genus Crotalaria having inflated pods within which the seeds rattle |
| crucífera | Any of various plants of the family Cruciferae |
| dent de lleó, lletsó | Any of several herbs of the genus Taraxacum having long tap roots and deeply notched leaves and bright yellow flowers followed by fluffy seed balls |
| didalera, digital purpúria | Any of several plants of the genus Digitalis |
| diplotaxis muralis | yellow-flowered European plant that grows on old walls and in waste places |
| draba | Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems |
| enciam | Any of various plants of the genus Lactuca |
| eruca sativa, Eruca sativa, ruca | Erect European annual often grown as a salad crop to be harvested when young and tender |
| espàrrec | plant whose succulent young shoots are cooked and eaten as a vegetable |
| fagopyrum esculentum, fajol | A member of the genus Fagopyrum |
| farigola, tem, timó | Any of various mints of the genus Thymus |
| flox | Any polemoniaceous plant of the genus Phlox |
| fonoll | Any of several aromatic herbs having edible seeds and leaves and stems |
| fraxinella | Eurasian perennial herb with white flowers that emit flammable vapor in hot weather |
| galàxia, galax | tufted evergreen perennial herb having spikes of tiny white flowers and glossy green round to heart-shaped leaves that become coppery to maroon or purplish in fall |
| gengebre, gingebre | perennial plants having thick branching aromatic rhizomes and leafy reedlike stems |
| gerani | Any of numerous plants of the family Geraniaceae |
| ginseng | Chinese herb with palmately compound leaves and small greenish flowers and forked aromatic roots believed to have medicinal powers |
| glycyrrhiza glabra, pega dolça, regalèssia | deep-rooted coarse-textured plant native to the Mediterranean region having blue flowers and pinnately compound leaves |
| gramínia | cosmopolitan herbaceous or woody plants with hollow jointed stems and long narrow leaves |
| gromwell, Lithospermum officinale | European perennial branching plant |
| halogeton | A coarse annual herb introduced into North America from Siberia |
| hedeoma pulegioides, poliol | Erect hairy branching American herb having purple-blue flowers |
| hidrastis, hydrastis canadensis | perennial herb of northeastern United States having a thick knotted yellow rootstock / rootstock and large rounded leaves |
| hisop, Hyssopus officinalis | A European mint with aromatic and pungent leaves used in perfumery and as a seasoning in cookery |
| horehound, malrubí, marrubí | Any of various aromatic herbs of the genus Marrubium |
| hortalissa, llegum, vegetal, verdura | Any of various herbaceous plants cultivated for an edible part such as the fruit or the root of the beet or the leaf of spinach or the seeds of bean plants or the flower buds of broccoli or cauliflower |
| impatiens capensis | North American annual plant with usually yellow or orange flowers |
| inula | Any plant of the genus Inula |
| julivert, Petroselinum crispum | Annual or perennial herb with aromatic leaves |
| kniphofia, tritoma | A plant of the genus Kniphofia having long grasslike leaves and tall scapes of red or yellow drooping flowers |
| krigia | Any small branched yellow-flowered North American herb of the genus Krigia |
| leonurus cardiaca | bitter Old World herb of hedgerows and woodland margins having toothed leaves and white or pale pink flowers |
| leopardbane, leopard's-bane | Any of several herbs of the genus Doronicum having alternate often clasping stem leaves cultivated for their long stalks of yellow flower heads |
| lion's-ear | pantropical herb having whorls of striking lipped flowers |
| liverleaf | Any of several plants of the genus Hepatica having three-lobed leaves and white or pinkish flowers in early spring |
| lli | plant of the genus Linum that is cultivated for its seeds and for the fibers of its stem |
| lobelia, lobèlia | Any plant or flower of the genus Lobelia |
| lunaria annua, satinpod | Southeastern European plant cultivated for its fragrant purplish flowers and round flat papery silver-white seedpods that are used for indoor decoration |
| maduixa, maduixer | Any of various low perennial herbs with many runners and bearing white flowers followed by edible fruits having many small achenes scattered on the surface of an enlarged red pulpy berry |
| malcoratge, melcoratge, mercurial | Eurafrican annual naturalized in America as a weed |
| mandràgora | A plant of southern Europe and North Africa having purple flowers, yellow fruits and a forked root formerly thought to have magical powers |
| maranta | Any of numerous herbs of the genus Maranta having tuberous starchy roots and large sheathing leaves |
| menta | Any north temperate plant of the genus Mentha with aromatic leaves and small mauve flowers |
| miositis, myosotis, nomeolvides | small perennial herb having bright blue or white flowers |
| miterwort, mitrewort | Any of various rhizomatous perennial herbs of the genus Mitella having a capsule resembling a bishop's miter |
| nemophila | Any plant of the genus Nemophila |
| nierembergia | Any of various plants of the genus Nierembergia having upturned bell-shaped flowers |
| onagra | Any of several plants of the family Onagraceae |
| orache | Any of various herbaceous plants of the genus Atriplex that thrive in deserts and salt marshes |
| oxalis | Any plant or flower of the genus Oxalis |
| pastanaga | perennial plant widely cultivated as an annual in many varieties for its long conical orange edible roots |
| peperomia | Any of various plants of the genus Peperomia |
| physostegia | Any of various plants of the genus Physostegia having sessile linear to oblong leaves and showy white or rose or lavender flowers |
| pica-pica | A stinging herb of tropical America |
| pipsissewa | Any of several plants of the genus Chimaphila |
| planta carnívora | plants adapted to attract and capture and digest primarily insects but also other small animals |
| planta lleguminosa | An erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae |
| planta umbel·lífera, umbel·lífera | Any of numerous aromatic herbs of the family Umbelliferae |
| podofil, Podophyllum peltatum | North American herb with poisonous root stock and edible though insipid fruit |
| polemonium | Any plant of the genus Polemonium |
| pota de cavall, Tussilago farfara | perennial herb with large rounded leaves resembling a colt's foot and yellow flowers appearing before the leaves do |
| poterium sanguisorba | European garden herb with purple-tinged flowers and leaves that are sometimes used for salads |
| primavera, prímula | Any of numerous short-stemmed plants of the genus Primula having tufted basal leaves and showy flowers clustered in umbels or heads |
| pyrola | Any of several evergreen perennials of the genus Pyrola |
| ranuncle | Any of various plants of the genus Ranunculus |
| rave japones | A Japanese plant of the family Cruciferae with a thick green root |
| reseda | Any plant of the genus Reseda |
| romaní, romer, rosmarinus officinalis, Rosmarinus officinalis | Widely cultivated for its fragrant grey-green leaves used in cooking and in perfumery |
| ruda, Ruta graveolens | European strong-scented perennial herb with grey-green bitter-tasting leaves |
| ruibarbre | plants having long green or reddish acidic leafstalks growing in basal clumps |
| sajolida | Any of several aromatic herbs or subshrubs of the genus Satureja having spikes of flowers attractive to bees |
| salpiglossis | Any plant of the genus Salpiglossis |
| salsifí, Tragopogon porrifolius | Mediterranean biennial herb with long-stemmed heads of purple ray flowers and milky sap and long edible root |
| salvia, sàlvia | Any of various plants of the genus Salvia |
| sanguinària del canadà | perennial woodland native of North America having a red root and red sap and bearing a solitary lobed leaf and white flower in early spring and having acrid emetic properties |
| sawwort | European perennial whose serrate leaves yield a yellow dye |
| sedum | Any of various plants of the genus Sedum |
| spiderwort | Any plant of the family Commelinaceae |
| stapelia | Any of various plants of the genus Stapelia having succulent leafless toothed stems resembling cacti and large foul-smelling (often star-shaped) flowers |
| stevia | Any plant of the genus Stevia or the closely related genus Piqueria having glutinous foliage and white or purplish flowers |
| tabac | aromatic annual or perennial herbs and shrubs |
| tanacetum parthenium | bushy aromatic European perennial herb having clusters of buttonlike white-rayed flower heads |
| tomaquera, tomàquet | Native to South America |
| trepadella | Eurasian perennial herb having pale pink flowers and curved pods |
| trèvol | A plant of the genus Trifolium |
| vernonia | Any of various plants of the genus Vernonia of tropical and warm regions / regions of especially North America that take their name from their loose heads of purple to rose flowers that quickly take on a rusty hue |
| viola | Any of the numerous plants of the genus Viola |
| waterleaf | Any of several plants of the genus Hydrophyllum |
| xirivia | A strong-scented plant cultivated for its edible root |
| General | planta vascular | green plant having a vascular system |
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| Anglès | herb, herbaceous plant |
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| Espanyol | herbácea, hierba, planta herbácea |
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