COMMON HOREHOUND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does common horehound mean? 

• COMMON HOREHOUND (noun)
  The noun COMMON HOREHOUND has 1 sense:

1. European aromatic herb with hairy leaves and numerous white flowers in axillary cymes; leaves yield a bitter extract use medicinally and as flavoring

  Familiarity information: COMMON HOREHOUND used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMMON HOREHOUND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

European aromatic herb with hairy leaves and numerous white flowers in axillary cymes; leaves yield a bitter extract use medicinally and as flavoring

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

common horehound; Marrubium vulgare; white horehound

Hypernyms ("common horehound" is a kind of...):

horehound (any of various aromatic herbs of the genus Marrubium)