genus Ballota

Thesaurus

Noun

1.genus Ballota - perennial herbs or subshrubs of especially Mediterranean area: black horehoundBallotaasterid dicot genus - genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubsfamily Labiatae, family Lamiaceae, Labiatae, Lamiaceae, mint family - a large family of aromatic herbs and shrubs having flowers resembling the lips of a mouth and four-lobed ovaries yielding four one-seeded nutlets and including mint; thyme; sage; rosemaryBallota nigra, black archangel, black horehound, fetid horehound, stinking horehound - ill-smelling European herb with rugose leaves and whorls of dark purple flowers