erba — meaning in English

English meaning

• grass noun A common green plant with narrow leaves that covers lawns, fields, and meadows.
• herb noun A plant used to flavour food, especially the leaves.
• marijuana noun The dried leaves and flowers of the cannabis plant, used as a drug for its mind-altering effects.
• pot noun A round container, usually with a handle, used for cooking or holding things such as plants.
• sward noun Ground where grass has taken root over its surface, forming turf, or a patch of such ground.
• turf noun Grass-covered ground, or a section of it cut as sod.
• weed verb To pull unwanted plants out of a garden or field.

Senses

erba is used for these senses in English:

• grass (countable, uncountable) Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain.
• grass (uncountable) A lawn.
• grass (uncountable, slang) Marijuana.
• herb (countable) Any green, leafy plant, or parts thereof, used to flavour or season food.
• herb (countable) A plant whose roots, leaves or seeds, etc. are used in medicine.
• herb (uncountable, slang) Cannabis.
• pot (slang, uncountable) Marijuana.
• sward (uncountable) Earth which grass has grown into the upper layer of; greensward, sod, turf; (countable) a portion of such earth.

grass — full definition

1. noun A common green plant with narrow leaves that covers lawns, fields, and meadows.
2. noun Marijuana (informal).
3. noun British informal: an informer who reports criminals or wrongdoers to the authorities.
4. verb British informal: to inform on someone to the police or another authority.

herb — full definition

1. noun A plant used to flavour food, especially the leaves.
2. noun A plant used in traditional or alternative medicine.

Related Italian words