A plant used as a source of food or for medicinal purposes. Cf. pot-herb, n. 1. Now archaic and historical.

spec. Applied to plants of which the leaves, or stem and leaves, are used for food or medicine, or in some way for their scent or flavour.

ingredients for pottage.

(a) a kind of gourd; (b) = pot-herb, n. 1.

food or fodder consisting of green herbs, plants, or vegetables; also in plural.

Any plant having leaves that are cooked and eaten as a vegetable. In later use also: any herb used to flavour food.

a leafy vegetable for boiling in a pot; = pot-herb, n. 1.