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say it: HAHR-hownd
horehound is a noun meaning "any of various aromatic herbs of the genus Marrubium". It is pronounced /ˈhɑɹˌhaʊnd/ — HAHR-hownd. It carries 2 recorded senses.
any of various aromatic herbs of the genus Marrubium
a candy that is flavored with an extract of the horehound plant
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for horehound come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.