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- noun Plural form of
potherb .
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Examples
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These vegetables are, however, probably more widely known as potherbs or greens.
Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses M. G. Kains
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Ground ivy is completely edible and was one of the "potherbs" harvested in early spring when little else was available.
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The whole ground is enameled with our European flowers…with our apple, pear, plum, apricot and walnut trees…full of melons, pateques or water melons, water parsnips, red beet, radishes, most of our potherbs, and others with which we are unacquainted.
Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010
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The whole ground is enameled with our European flowers…with our apple, pear, plum, apricot and walnut trees…full of melons, pateques or water melons, water parsnips, red beet, radishes, most of our potherbs, and others with which we are unacquainted.
Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010
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The whole ground is enameled with our European flowers…with our apple, pear, plum, apricot and walnut trees…full of melons, pateques or water melons, water parsnips, red beet, radishes, most of our potherbs, and others with which we are unacquainted.
Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010
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And potherbs, steeped in vinegar, in porringers thereby!
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And of potherbs, mint, garlic, and onions; for what is acrid does not agree with a weak person.
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In front of it was a piece of garden ground, wherein waxed potherbs, and a little deal of wheat; and therein was
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Such persons should take less supper than they are wont, and a pudding of barley-meal more moist than usual instead of bread, and of potherbs the dock, or mallow, and ptisan, or beets, and along with the food they should take wine in moderation, and diluted with water; after supper they should take a short walk, until the urine descend and be passed; and they may use boiled fish.
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Studies showed they were used as potherbs, making perfumes or in the manufacture of pharmaceutical products.
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