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horehound

[ US /ˈhɑɹˌhaʊnd/ ]
[ UK /hˈɔːha‍ʊnd/ ]
NOUN
  1. a candy that is flavored with an extract of the horehound plant
  2. any of various aromatic herbs of the genus Marrubium

How To Use horehound In A Sentence

  • Each of the Horehounds is a labiate plant; and this, the water variety, bears flesh coloured flowers, whilst containing a volatile oil, a resin, a bitter principle, and tannin. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
  • Marsh fern, water horehound, spotted touch-me-not, great water dock, and lake sedge live on the soupy mudflats.
  • I gathered mint and mustard and nettles, and went down to my herb garden on the terrace below the house to pick horehound and hyssop. Wildfire
  • Black horehound is noticeable along the lanes. Times, Sunday Times
  • Marsh fern, water horehound, spotted touch-me-not, great water dock, and lake sedge live on the soupy mudflats.
  • Each morning, Mr. Willetts cycles from his home nearby, stopping off along the way to pick vegetation such as honeysuckle, borage, sweet violets, horehound and meadowsweet, which will end up on one of the dishes at the restaurant later that day. Sniffing Out Local Gems
  • Ancient Egyptians, Ayurvedic practitioners and Native American healers used horehound, another highly regarded herbal expectorant, as a cough remedy.
  • Instead, she gets a pomegranate tree, a sack of hoodooed horehound candies, and a strange visitor—a boy who offers her a silver coin from his mouth and asks for directions to Elisia. 12/17/2006 - 12/24/2006
  • In his mouth there was the sweet burn of horehound candy, the exact savor of his long-ago childhood. Excerpt: The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff
  • Maybe I smelled the musk of horehound and the bracing scent of mint in my sleep, for in the morning I awoke to find those herbs in the straw around our blankets, mixed with poppies and cornflower and other weeds that had grown unwelcomed amidst wheat and barley. Wildfire
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