black horehound

What does black horehound mean?

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

What is another word for black horehound?

Close synonyms include black archangel, fetid horehound, stinking horehound, Ballota nigra. 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 black horehound a common word?

black horehound 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for black horehound come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.