单词 | black horehound |
释义 | > as lemmasblack horehound black horehound n. a strongly scented European plant, Ballota nigra (cf. Ballota n.), with rough-textured hairy leaves and whorls of small red-purple flowers around the stem, formerly (and sometimes still) used medicinally. ΚΠ 1538 T. Elyot Dict. Table Correct. sig. A.vv/1 Apiastrum, rede an herbe, whiche hath leaues lyke to blacke horehound, but greatter. ?1610 J. Fletcher Faithfull Shepheardesse ii. sig. D1 The Clote..And this blacke Horehound, both are very good. 1722 J. Miller Botanicum Officinale 286 The Black Horehound grows taller, and more branched than the White, having square hairy Stalks, and larger darker Leaves. 1902 Longman's Mag. Nov. 59 Scattered along the lonely waste are plants of the black mullein, and the stinking black horehound. 2008 P. Taylor Irish Country Village (2009) 67 They walked along a path of uneven concrete slabs where grass and clumps of black horehound had forced their way through the cracks. < as lemmas |
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