before 1000; Middle English horehune, Old English hārhūne, equivalent to hār gray, hoar + hūne horehound
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
| horehound or hoarhound (ˈhɔːˌhaʊnd) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | See also black horehound Also called: white horehound a downy perennial herbaceous Old World plant, Marrubium vulgare, with small white flowers that contain a bitter juice formerly used as a cough medicine and flavouring: family Lamiaceae (labiates) |
| 2. | water horehound another name for bugleweed |
| [Old English hārhūne, from hār grey + hūne horehound, of obscure origin] | |
| hoarhound or hoarhound | |
| —n | |
| [Old English hārhūne, from hār grey + hūne horehound, of obscure origin] | |
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horehound hore·hound (hôr'hound')
n.
An aromatic Eurasian plant whose leaves of which yield a bitter extract that is used as a cough remedy.
A candy or preparation flavored with this extract.
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horehound
(Marrubium vulgare), bitter perennial herb of the mint family (Lamiaceae) whose leaves and flowering tops are used as flavouring for beverages and candies and as a traditional medicine. Infusions or extracts of horehound in the form of syrups, beverages, or lozenges are popular in the United States as remedies for coughs and minor pulmonary disturbances. Native to Europe, North Africa, and Central Asia, horehound is naturalized in North America. It is cultivated in Great Britain and is occasionally found as an escape, growing wild on drier soils.
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