stinking horehound

What does stinking horehound mean?

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

What is another word for stinking horehound?

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

stinking 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 stinking horehound come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.