noun
perennial herbs or subshrubs of especially Mediterranean area: black horehound
• Syn: ↑genus Ballota
• Hypernyms: ↑asterid dicot genus
• Member Holonyms: ↑Labiatae, ↑family Labiatae, ↑Lamiaceae, ↑family Lamiaceae, ↑mint family
• Member Meronyms: ↑black horehound, ↑black archangel, ↑fetid horehound, ↑stinking horehound, ↑Ballota nigra
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\\bəˈlōd.ə\ nounUsage: capitalized
: a genus of plants (family Labiatae) having small bracteate flowers in axillary clusters — see black horehound
Useful english dictionary. 2012.