Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of plants belonging to the natural order Labiatœ, and the tribe Stachydeœ, type of the subtribe Marrubieæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A genus of bitter aromatic plants, sometimes used in medicine; hoarhound.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of the
genus Marrubium ofbitter aromatic plants ;hoarhound .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun Old World aromatic herbs: horehound
Etymologies
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From the genus name.
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Examples
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Looking inside, I saw more wild plants: chardon, * bourrache, * marrubium, and something he'd sub-labeled "Paris Fog".
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bourrache,* marrubium, and something he'd sub-labeled "Paris Fog".
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&c. we generally find: It is in the same chapter, that he commends also wormwood, _marrubium_, _chamelæagnum_, sage, tamarisc, and almost any thing, rather than hops.
Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees John Evelyn 1663
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