ballota nigra

1. 1.

   ill-smelling European herb with rugose leaves and whorls of dark purple flowers

   Synonymsblack horehoundblack archangelfetid horehoundstinking horehound

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Questions about ballota nigra

What does ballota nigra mean?

ballota nigra means "ill-smelling European herb with rugose leaves and whorls of dark purple flowers".

What is another word for ballota nigra?

Close synonyms include black horehound, black archangel, fetid horehound, stinking horehound. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ballota nigra a common word?

ballota nigra is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.