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Marrubium

noun

Old World aromatic herbs: horehound

• Syn: ↑genus Marrubium

• Hypernyms: ↑asterid dicot genus

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

• Member Meronyms: ↑horehound

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\\-ēəm\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Latin, horehound

: a genus of Old World mints having wrinkled leaves and small white or purple flowers in dense axillary clusters — see horehound 1a

Useful english dictionary. 2012.