herbal

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: herb=al

CIDE DICTIONARY

herbal, a. 

 Of or pertaining to herbs.  Quarles.  [1913 Webster]

herbal, n. 

•  A book containing the names and descriptions of plants.  Bacon.  [1913 Webster]
•  A collection of specimens of plants, dried and preserved; a hortus siccus; an herbarium.  Steele.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

herbal, adj. & n.
--adj. of herbs in medicinal and culinary use.
--n. a book with descriptions and accounts of the properties of these.

Etymology

med.L herbalis (as HERB)

ROGET THESAURUS

herbal

Vegetable

N vegetable, vegetable kingdom, flora, verdure, plant, tree, shrub, bush, creeper, herb, herbage, grass, annual, perennial, biennial, triennial, exotic, timber, forest, wood, woodlands, timberland, hurst, frith, holt, weald, park, chase, greenwood, brake, grove, copse, coppice, bocage, tope, clump of trees, thicket, spinet, spinney, underwood, brushwood, scrub, boscage, bosk, ceja, chaparal, motte, arboretum, bush, jungle, prairie, heath, heather, fern, bracken, furze, gorse, whin, grass, turf, pasture, pasturage, turbary, sedge, rush, weed, fungus, mushroom, toadstool, lichen, moss, conferva, mold, growth, alfalfa, alfilaria, banyan, blow, blowth, floret, petiole, pin grass, timothy, yam, yew, zinnia, foliage, branch, bough, ramage, stem, tigella, spray, leaf, flower, blossom, bine, flowering plant, timber tree, fruit tree, pulse, legume, vegetable, vegetal, vegetive, vegitous, herbaceous, herbal, botanic, sylvan, silvan, arborary, arboreous, arborescent, arborical, woody, grassy, verdant, verdurous, floral, mossy, lignous, ligneous, wooden, leguminous, vosky, cespitose, turf-like, turfy, endogenous, exogenous, green-robed senators of mighty woods, this is the forest primeval.

Botany

N botany, physiological botany, structural botany, systematic botany, phytography, phytology, phytotomy, vegetable physiology, herborization, dendrology, mycology, fungology, algology, flora, romona, botanic garden, hortus siccus, herbarium, herbal, botanist, herbist, herbarist, herbalist, herborist, herbarian, botanical, botanic.