- relating to or made from herbs, especially those used in cooking and medicine（尤指用于烹调和制药的）与芳草有关的; 芳草的：
herbal lore
有关芳草的知识
herbal remedies.
草药疗法。
- a book that describes herbs and their culinary and medicinal properties芳草植物志。
词源
early 16th cent. (as a noun)： from medieval Latin herbalis (adjective), from Latin herba 'grass, herb'.