common horehound

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

   Synonymswhite horehoundMarrubium vulgare

   Broaderhorehound

Questions about common horehound

What does common horehound mean?

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

What is another word for common horehound?

Close synonyms include white horehound, Marrubium vulgare. 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 common horehound a common word?

common 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.