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UK
/hˈɪsəp/
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[ US /ˈhɪsəp/ ]
[ US /ˈhɪsəp/ ]
NOUN
- a European mint with aromatic and pungent leaves used in perfumery and as a seasoning in cookery; often cultivated as a remedy for bruises; yields hyssop oil
- bitter leaves used sparingly in salads; dried flowers used in soups and tisanes
How To Use hyssop In A Sentence
- 29A jar of wine vinegar was there, so they soaked a sponge in it, put the sponge on a stalk of the hyssop plant, and lifted it to Jesus' lips.
- After sprinkling her with holy water and purifying her with hyssop, the priest led her into the church to the altar while reading the identical prayer used in the similar procession during infant baptism.
- Evidence of vegetation sometimes survives: plants such as hyssop, heather and box may have been popular remedies or evergreen symbols of eternity.
- Lavender and hyssop form flowering hedges along the full length of the path. Planning the Organic Herb Garden
- They come for the butterfly weed, lilacs, echinacea and anise hyssop, and especially for the white, lavender and pink butterfly bushes.
- The hyssop is a lowly shrub; and God must stoop low to smell the incense of Calvary.
- Cleanse my hidden mind with the hyssop of your grace, for I draw near to the Holy of Holies of your mysteries.
- 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
- The products used contain basil, pepper, clary sage and thyme, as well as hyssop essential oils.
- Marigold and feverfew, dandelion and hyssop, thyme and marjoram. HIDING FROM THE LIGHT