noun
Old World aromatic herbs: horehound
• Syn: ↑genus Marrubium
• Hypernyms: ↑asterid dicot genus
• Member Holonyms: ↑Labiatae, ↑family Labiatae, ↑Lamiaceae, ↑family Lamiaceae, ↑mint family
• Member Meronyms: ↑horehound
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\\-ēəm\ nounUsage: capitalized
: a genus of Old World mints having wrinkled leaves and small white or purple flowers in dense axillary clusters — see horehound 1a
Useful english dictionary. 2012.