| 单词 | horehound common |
| 释义 | > as lemmashorehound common a. A labiate herb, Marrubium vulgare, having stem and leaves covered with white cottony pubescence; its aromatic bitter juice is much used as a remedy for coughs, etc. Hence extended to several allied herbs (see 1b), horehound proper being then distinguished as horehound common or white horehound. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > [noun] > horehound horehoundc1000 marrube?a1450 horemint1539 marvel1847 c1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 110 Genim þa haran hunan. a1100 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 298/6 Marubium, hare hune. a1300 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 554/4 Marubium, i. maruil, i. horehune. c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 80 Wiþ watir..þat mirre wormode, horhone, sauge, pimpernelle hony symple or compounned ben soden yn. c1425 in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) II. 9 An heved hor als horhowne. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 247/1 Horone, herbe..marubium. 1486 Bk. St. Albans C v b Take the Juce of haarhounde. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 232/1 Horehounde herbe, langue de chien. 1742 W. Ellis London & Country Brewer (ed. 4) I. 38 That wholesome Herb Horehound, which, indeed, is a fine Bitter. 1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xxii. 313 Common White Horehound has the divisions of the calyx ending in setaceous hooked points. 1897 J. C. Willis Man. Flowering Plants II. 242 Marrubium vulgare, white horehound. < as lemmas |
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