Akademik

Ballota

noun

perennial herbs or subshrubs of especially Mediterranean area: black horehound

• Syn: ↑genus Ballota

• Hypernyms: ↑asterid dicot genus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Labiatae, ↑family Labiatae, ↑Lamiaceae, ↑family Lamiaceae, ↑mint family

• Member Meronyms: ↑black horehound, ↑black archangel, ↑fetid horehound, ↑stinking horehound, ↑Ballota nigra

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\\bəˈlōd.ə\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, alter of Latin ballote black horehound, from Greek ballōtē

: a genus of plants (family Labiatae) having small bracteate flowers in axillary clusters — see black horehound

Useful english dictionary. 2012.