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• Herb — This article is about culinary, medicinal, and spiritual herbs. For the technical botanical usage, see herbaceous plant. For other uses, see Herb (disambiguation). Basil and green onions, common culinary herbs Except in botanical usage, an herb ( …   Wikipedia

• Caryophyllales — ▪ plant order Introduction   pink or carnation order of dicotyledonous flowering plants. The order includes 33 families, which contain more than 11,000 species in 692 genera. Nearly half of the families are very small, with less than a dozen… …   Universalium

• plant — plantable, adj. plantless, adj. plantlike, adj. /plant, plahnt/, n. 1. any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that… …   Universalium

• Magnoliidae — ▪ plant subclass Introduction       subclass of woody or herbaceous flowering plants belonging to the class Magnoliopsida.       Members of the Magnoliidae are dicotyledonous plants that retain some primitive anatomic and morphological… …   Universalium

• Salvia — Taxobox name = Salvia image width = 240px image caption = Meadow sage Salvia pratensis regnum = Plantae divisio = Magnoliophyta classis = Magnoliopsida ordo = Lamiales familia = Lamiaceae genus = Salvia genus authority = L. subdivision ranks =… …   Wikipedia

• Dipsacales — ▪ plant order Introduction   teasel or honeysuckle order of flowering plants, containing 45 genera and about 1,100 species, which are distributed worldwide but centred mainly in the Northern Hemisphere. The order is best known for its ornamental… …   Universalium

• Nile River — Arabic Baḥr al Nīl River, eastern and northern Africa. The longest river in the world, it is about 4,132 mi (6,650 km) long from its remotest headstream and 3,473 mi (5,588 km) from Lake Victoria to the Mediterranean Sea. It flows generally north …   Universalium

• Brassicales — ▪ plant order Introduction  order of flowering plants that includes cabbages (cabbage) and capers, as well as mignonette, mustard, and nasturtiums (nasturtium). Brassicales includes 17 families, 398 genera, and 4,450 species. There are five… …   Universalium

• oregano — /euh reg euh noh , aw reg /, n. an aromatic herb, Origanum vulgare, of the mint family, having leaves used as seasoning in cooking. Also called pot marjoram. Cf. marjoram. [1765 75; < AmerSp orégano, Sp: wild marjoram < L origanum. See ORIGAN] *… …   Universalium

• Rumex — Patience dock (Rumex patientia) Scientific classification Kingdom …   Wikipedia

• spurge — /sperrj/, n. any of numerous plants of the genus Euphorbia, having a milky juice and flowers with no petals or sepals. Cf. spurge family. [1350 1400; ME < MF espurge, n. deriv. of espurgier to cleanse < L expurgare. See EX 1, PURGE] * * * One of… …   Universalium